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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

A comparison of the merits of using birth weight, or appropriateness of birth weight to gestational age, in the assessment of subsequent growth in twin children

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Pages 596-605 | Received 17 May 2007, Published online: 11 Nov 2008

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