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Chapter 2 - Abnormal Labor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2017

By
Rolanda Standifer  and
Etoi A. Garrison
Edited by
Martin Olsen
Martin Olsen
Affiliation:
East Tennessee State University
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Obstetric Care , pp. 13 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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