Diabetic ketoacidosis - A possible complicating factor in deaths associated with drug overdose: Two case reports

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-84

  Byard, Roger W ^a   Riches, K J ^a   Kostakis, C ^a   Felgate, H E ^a  

^a FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

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EID: 33644900483     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.46.1.81     Document Type: Article

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