Pathophysiology of Neural Tube Defects

Fetal and Neonatal Physiology: Third Edition

Volumn 2-2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1772-1785

  Danzer, Enrico ^a   Rintoul, Natalie E ^a,b   Crombleholme, Timothy M ^a,b   Adzick, N Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7216-9654-6.50175-2     Document Type: Chapter

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