Placenta: A silent witness: Clinical and forensic importance of placental examination

Marina Kos
Marina Kos

Published: 01.12.2011.

Biochemistry

Volume 28, Issue 2 (2012)

pp. 533-539;

https://doi.org/10.5937/matmed1202533k

Abstract

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