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Chapter 5 - The Microcirculation

from Section 1 - Physiology of Normal Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2018

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Jérôme Cornette  and
Andreas Brückmann
Edited by
Christoph Lees  and
Wilfried Gyselaers
Christoph Lees
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Wilfried Gyselaers
Affiliation:
Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium
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Maternal Hemodynamics , pp. 42 - 57
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Print publication year: 2018

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