Natural factors influencing multiple gestation: Perspectives from long-term observations in Scotland

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-93

  Campbell, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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