Parental mean ages and birth order in different types of congenital heart defects
✍ Scribed by Gerhard Jörgensen; Waltraut Jörgensen; Alois J. Beuren; Joachim Stoermer
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 354 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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