Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 401-423 , June 2009

Severe chronic morbidity following childbirth

  • Tak Yeung Leung, MD, MRCOG (Consultant and Honorary Associate Professor)

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  • Tony Kwok Hung Chung, MD, FRANZCOG, FRCOG (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.01.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 401-423 , June 2009

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