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Original Articles

Ultrasonic assessment of cesarean section scar to vesicovaginal fold distance: an instrument to estimate pre-labor uterine rupture risk

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Pages 4370-4374 | Received 23 Sep 2020, Accepted 09 Nov 2020, Published online: 04 Jan 2021

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