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Ante-Partum Psychosis and Progesterone Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul J. McMahon*
Affiliation:
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge CB1 5EF
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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