Open fetal surgery for nonlethal malformations

Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 829-849

  Bruner, J P ^a   Tulipan, N ^a   Davis, G H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; LETHALITY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0034824486     PISSN: 10479422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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