Do we need to advocate for vaginal delivery?

Clin Obstet Gynecol

Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Houston, Texas 77026, USA.

Published: March 2006

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