Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 503-509 , November 2009

Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence and clinical characteristics

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PII: S0010-440X(08)00182-X

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.11.014

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 503-509 , November 2009

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