Multiple Pregnancy

Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Seventh Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 166-176

  Fisk, Nicholas M ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Chorionicity; Miscarriage; Multiplepr egnancy; Perinatal wastage; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891294238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753354.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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