Operative fetoscopy: A new frontier in fetal medicine

Contemporary Ob-Gyn

Volumn 44, Issue SPEC.ISS. 1, 1999, Pages 45-68

  Quintero, Rubén A ^a   Morales, Walter ^a  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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