Operative fetoscopy: New perspective in fetal therapy?

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1247-1260

  Deprest, Jan A ^a,b,c   Lerut, Toni E ^a,b   Vandenberghe, Kamiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Centre for Surgical Technologies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal models; Endoscopy; Fetal surgery; Feto fetal transfusion; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS SURGERY; HYSTEROTOMY; LASER COAGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACROCOCCYX TERATOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031474321     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199712)17:13<1247::AID-PD329>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Review

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