Diagnosis of chorionicity and amnionicity

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 291-308

  Timor Tritsch, I E ^a   Monteagudo, A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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