Interventional fetal cardiac therapy - Possible perspectives and current shortcomings

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 527-531

  Meyer Wittkopf, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANASTOMOSIS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FETUS DISEASE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASOUND;

COUNSELING; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0036905438     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2002.00858.x     Document Type: Editorial

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