The pelvic floor sequelae of childbirth

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 1996, Pages

  Sultan, Abdul H ^a   Monga, Ash K ^a   Stanton, Stuart L ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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