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Demasio, K., Magriples, U. Pregnancy Complicated by Maternal Paraplegia or Tetraplegia as a Result of Spinal Cord Injury and Spina Bifida. Sexuality and Disability 17, 223–232 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022128905877
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