Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele: Panacea or peril?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-94

  Hirose, Shinjiro ^a   Meuli Simmen, Claudia ^a   Meuli, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BLADDER FUNCTION; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANIMAL; BLADDER; BRAIN DISEASE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; HERNIA; HYDROCEPHALUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN DISEASES; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HERNIA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; RHOMBENCEPHALON; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0038652171     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6742-5     Document Type: Review

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