Pseudohyponatremia revisited: A modern-day pitfall

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 516-519

  Fortgens, Philip ^a   Pillay, Tahir S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Division of Chemical Pathology   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OSMOLARITY; PATHOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SODIUM;

EID: 79955103353     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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