Successful fetal surgery for spina bifida

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9141, 1998, Pages 1675-1676

  Adzick, N Scott ^a   Sutton, Leslie N ^b   Crombleholme, Timothy M ^b   Flake, Alan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; TERBUTALINE; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS SURGERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPINA BIFIDA; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOCOLYSIS;

EID: 0032556437     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)00070-1     Document Type: Article

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