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Research Article

Adverse perinatal outcome in teenage pregnancies: is it all due to lack of prenatal care and ethnicity?

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Pages 469-472 | Received 04 Jul 2012, Accepted 05 Oct 2012, Published online: 05 Nov 2012

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