Pseudohyperkalemia accompanying actual hyperphosphatemia and hypocalcemia in an adolescent with T-lymphoblastic

Yung-Chieh Huang1, Fang-Liang Huang2, Shang-Feng Tsai3

  • 1Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Clinical Biochemistry
|December 19, 2021
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