Caesarean deliveries: Indications, techniques and complications

Best Practice in Labour and Delivery

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-115

  Story, Lisa ^a   Paterson Brown, Sara ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84863296118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511635489.011     Document Type: Chapter

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