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S Mould1, F Paruk, J Moodley

  • 1Women's Health and HIV Research Group and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
|March 18, 2006
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