Recognizing and managing HELLP syndrome and its imitators

Contemporary Ob-Gyn

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 129-149

  Egerman, Robert S ^a   Sibai, Baha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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