Fetoscopy in the pregnant rabbit at midgestation

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 118-121

  Papadopulos, Nikolaos A ^c   Dumitrascu, Irina ^c   Ordoñez, Jose L ^c   Decaluwé, Herbert ^c   Lerut, Toni E ^c   Barki, Gerard ^a   Deprest, Jan A ^b  

^a Karl Storz GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^b Center for Surgical Technologies Leuven   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Fetal endoscopic surgery; Fetoscopy; Rabbit model

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMNIOINFUSION; AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS SURGERY; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; INCISION; LAPAROTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURVIVAL RATE; UMBILICAL CORD;

AMNION; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; RABBITS;

EID: 0033045236     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020902     Document Type: Article

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