Multidisciplinary surgical approach to a surviving infant with sirenomelia

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Messineo, Antonio ^a   Innocenti, Marco ^b   Gelli, Riccardo ^c   Pancani, Simone ^a   Lo Piccolo, Roberto ^a   Martin, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mermaid syndrome; Sirenomelia

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIRENOMELIA; SURGICAL APPROACH; ANAL CANAL; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CALCANEUS; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE ATRESIA; LEG; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PHOCOMELIA; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPINE; TISSUE EXPANSION; VAGINA;

CHONDROITIN SULFATE; COLLAGEN; INTEGRA ARTIFICIAL SKIN;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANAL CANAL; CALCANEUS; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; COLLAGEN; COLON; ECTROMELIA; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL ATRESIA; LEG; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; SPINE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VAGINA;

EID: 33746814994     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-3001     Document Type: Article

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