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Original Article

Prediction of birth weight discordance from fetal weight estimations at 21–24 weeks' scans in monochorionic and dichorionic twins

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Pages 1944-1947 | Received 30 Jul 2016, Accepted 03 Sep 2016, Published online: 07 Feb 2017

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