Unsafe abortions cause 20 000 deaths a year in Nigeria
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A 20 year retrospective analysis of medicolegal deaths in a tertiary hospital setting in Nigeria.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.988/d