Fertile soil or no man’s land: Cooperation and conflict in the placental bed

Placental Bed Disorders: Basic Science and its Translation to Obstetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 165-173

  Haig, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511750847.017     Document Type: Chapter

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