Importance of low Blood pH in DKA

Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 2013; 121(02): 90
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1327711

Letter to the editor

V. Rosival

¹SYNLAB Department of Laboratory medicine, Dérer's Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia

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