A different technique to create a 'myelomeningocele-like' defect in the fetal rabbit

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 372-376

  Pedreira, Denise Araújo Lapa ^a,b   Valente, Paulo R ^a   Abou Jamra, Rogério C ^a   Pelarigo, Cláudio L ^a   Silva, Lilian M ^a   Goldenberg, Saul ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DANTE PAZZANESE DE CARDIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal model; Fetal surgery; Myelomeningocele; Rabbit, prenatal; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; INCISION; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RABBIT; SPINE MALFORMATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0036976888     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065388     Document Type: Article

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