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. 1998 May;91(5):244–250. doi: 10.1177/014107689809100503

Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring: retrospective reflections on a twentieth-century technology.

R G Kennedy 1
PMCID: PMC1296699  PMID: 9764077

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