Trisomy 18 mosaicism: report of two cases
✍ Scribed by Siddharth Banka, Kay Metcalfe, Jill Clayton-Smith
- Book ID
- 120907364
- Publisher
- SP Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 675 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1708-8569
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