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Comparison of measured and calculated osmolality levels

Ezgi Kar1, Evin Kocatürk2, Zeynep Küskü Kiraz2

  • 1Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, 26480, Odunpazarı, Eskişehir, Turkey. eyaver@ogu.edu.tr.

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology
|January 27, 2020
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Keywords:
Osmolal gapOsmolar concentrationOsmometryOsmosisSerum osmolality

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