Operative techniques and strategies for minimally invasive fetoscopic fetal cardiac intervention in sheep

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 424-430

  Kohl, T ^a   Witteler, R ^a   Strumper D ^a   Gogarten, W ^a   Asfour, B ^a   Reckers, J ^a   Merschhoff, G ^a   Marcus, A E ^a   Weyand, M ^a   Van Aken, H ^a   Vogt, J ^a   Scheid, H H ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Fetal cardiac intervention; Fetal surgery; Fetoscopy; Heart; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART SURGERY; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETOSCOPY; INSUFFLATION; POSTURE; SHEEP; UTERUS;

EID: 0033917487     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004640000129     Document Type: Article

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