The east flanders prospective twin survey

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-47

  Derom, C ^a   Derom, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Association for Scientific Research in Multiple Births   (Belgium)

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