Artifactual hypoglycemia in a patient with sickle cell anemia.

CMAJ

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine (Wang, Morein, Sorisky), The Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (McCudden), The Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa; Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (McCudden); Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Sorisky), The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ont.

Published: November 2021

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