Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 192-196 , March 2010

Validation of Placental Vascular Sonobiopsy for Obtaining Representative Placental Vascular Indices by Three-Dimensional Power Doppler Ultrasonography

,Accepted 16 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.12.018

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 192-196 , March 2010

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