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The effect of maternal exercise on uterine artery velocimetry waveforms

N. M. RAFLA G. A. ETOKOWO Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, UK
Pages 14-17 | Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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