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Ruben Barakat1, Jonatan R Ruiz, James R Stirling

  • 1Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte-INEF, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|July 18, 2009
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