Prune-belly syndrome: Therapeutic options including in utero placement of a vesicoamniotic shunt

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 500-507

  Leeners, Brigitte ^a   Sauer, Itta ^a   Schefels, Joürg ^a   Cotarelo, Cristina L ^a   Funk, Andreas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal renal function; Fetal surgery; Megalocystis; Prune belly syndrome; Ultrasonography; Vesicoamniotic shunt

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLADDER DISTENSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYPTORCHISM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MALE; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; SHUNTING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; KIDNEY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0033755233     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0096(200011/12)28:9<500::AID-JCU10>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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