Poor outcome of very low birthweight babies with serious congenital heart disease
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/fn.87.1.f31