Treatment of severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia by fetal tracheal occlusion: Clinical experience with fifteen cases

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1059-1066

  Flake, Alan W ^a   Crombleholme, Timothy M ^a   Johnson, Mark P ^a   Howell, Lori J ^a   Adzick, N Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Fetal lung growth; Fetal surgery; Tracheal occlusion

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; EXPERIENCE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS SURGERY; FLUID TRANSPORT; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG FLUID; LUNG FUNCTION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA STENOSIS;

EID: 0033675638     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2000.108871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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