Immunological factors and placentation: Implications for pre-eclampsia

Pre-Eclampsia: Etiology and Clinical Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-120

  Redman, Chris W G ^a   Sargent, Ian L ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511545634.008     Document Type: Chapter

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