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Chapter 28 - Polycythemia and Fetal-Maternal Bleeding

from Section 4 - Specific Conditions Associated with Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2017

David K. Stevenson
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Stanford University, California
William E. Benitz
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Stanford University, California
Philip Sunshine
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Susan R. Hintz
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Maurice L. Druzin
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