Seminars in Perinatology
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 103-112 , April 2006

Multiple Gestations and Late Preterm (Near-Term) Deliveries

  • Young Mi Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Young Mi Lee, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, 620 West 168th Street, PH 16-66, New York, NY 10032.
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  • Jane Cleary-Goldman, MD
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  • Mary E. D’Alton, MD

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doi: 10.1053/j.semperi.2006.03.001

Seminars in Perinatology
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 103-112 , April 2006

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