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Chapter 8 - Prolonged Second Stage of Labour Including Difficult Decision Making on Operative Vaginal Delivery and Caesarean Section

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
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St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
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