Pregnancy loss: Multiple pregnancy versus multiple birth

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 252-254

  Verp, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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