Monoamniotic twins

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 574-582

  Bilardo, C M ^a   Arabin, B ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

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