The fine structure of the mature human endometrium

The Endometrium: Molecular, Cellular and Clinical Perspectives, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 46-65

  Dockery, Peter ^a   Burke, Marcella J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NONE

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