Brief report: Dermoid inclusion cysts and early spinal cord tethering after fetal surgery for myelomeningocele

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 256-259

  Mazzola, Catherine A ^a   Leland Albright, A ^a   Sutton, Leslie N ^b   Tuite, Gerald F ^c   Hamilton, Ronald L ^a   Pollack, Ian F ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCOMOTION; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURGICAL RISK; TERATOMA; WOUND CLOSURE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; FETUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; INFANT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE;

ALLODERM; COLLAGEN;

COLLAGEN; DERMOID CYST; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE;

EID: 0037173336     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa013325     Document Type: Article

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