Potential for correction of fetal obstructive uropathy: Time for a randomized, controlled trial?

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 527-530

  Kilby, M D ^a   Somerset, D A ^a   Khan, K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; BLADDER DISTENSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYSTOSCOPY; EDITORIAL; FETOSCOPY; FETUS BLADDER; FETUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; META ANALYSIS; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK; SHUNTING; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REVIEW LITERATURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 3042604607     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1073     Document Type: Editorial

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