Maternal Hematologic Neoplasms during Pregnancy: Histologic Findings in the Placenta

Ashlie E Rubrecht1, Robert P Seifert1, Archana Shenoy2

  • 1University of Florida, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Placenta
|January 2, 2021
PubMed

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