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S R Fan1, Q P Liao, X P Liu

  • 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.

International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics: the Official Organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
|February 19, 2008
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