The late preterm infant: A little baby with big needs

Contemporary Pediatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 51-58

  Hubbard, Eustratia ^a   Stellwagen, Lisa ^a   Wolf, Alison ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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