The short and tunneled cervix: What do I do now?

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 26-34

  Berghella, Vincenzo ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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