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17 - Gestational trophoblastic disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2013

Robert A. Soslow  and
Teri A. Longacre
Robert A. Soslow
Affiliation:
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Teri A. Longacre
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
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Uterine Pathology , pp. 298 - 320
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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