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[Disproportion between placenta weight and birth weight: Physiologic or pathologic]

P Lorain1, J Boujenah1, A Bricou1

  • 1Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, CHU Jean-Verdier, université Paris XIII - Bobigny, avenue du 14-Juillet, 93143 Bondy cedex, France.

Journal De Gynecologie, Obstetrique Et Biologie De La Reproduction
|July 20, 2015
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Keywords:
Birth weightPerinatalPlacenta weightPlacentomegalyPlacentomégaliePoids de naissancePoids placentairePre-eclampsiaPré-éclampsiePérinatal

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