When your pregnant patient uses alternative medicine

Contemporary Ob-Gyn

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 45-58

  Olson, Gayle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

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