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Comment
. 2018 Jan 15;190(2):E57.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.733569.

Peripartum suicide: additional considerations

Verinder Sharma  1 , Michael Thomson  2
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Peripartum suicide: additional considerations

Verinder Sharma et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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