Detecting and managing fetal macrosomia

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 89-119

  Nahum, Gerard G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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