Operative vaginal deliveries: Indications, techniques and complications

Best Practice in Labour and Delivery

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-103

  Doumouchtsis, Stergios K ^a   Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84926100246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511635489.010     Document Type: Chapter

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