Universal cervical-length screening and vaginal progesterone prevents early preterm births, reduces neonatal morbidity and is cost saving: doing nothing is no longer an option

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Stuart Campbell. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Jul.

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. 2011 Jul;38(1):1-9.

doi: 10.1002/uog.9073.

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