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Section 4 - Fetal disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

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Bidyut Kumar  and
Zarko Alfirevic
Bidyut Kumar
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Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Zarko Alfirevic
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University of Liverpool
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Fetal Medicine , pp. 201 - 242
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