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Decidual vasculopathy and spiral artery remodeling revisited II: relations to trophoblastic dependent and independent vascular transformation

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Pages 395-401 | Received 11 Oct 2019, Accepted 16 Jan 2020, Published online: 27 Jan 2020

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