Fetoscopic surgery: Encouraged by clinical experience and boosted by instrument innovation

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 398-412

  Deprest, Jan ^a   Jani, Jacques ^a,b   Lewi, Liesbeth ^a   Ochsenbein Kölble, Nicole ^a   Cannie, Mieke ^a   Doné, Elisa ^a,b   Roubliova, Xenia ^b   Van Mieghem, Tim ^a,b   Debeer, Anne ^a,b   Debuck, Frederik ^a,b   Sbragia, Laurenço ^a,b   Toelen, Jaan ^a,b   Devlieger, Roland ^a   Lewi, Paul ^a   Van de Velde, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Fetal surgery; Fetoscopy; Monochorionic twins; PPROM; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BLOOD VESSEL; CHORION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL LUNG DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EUROPE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS MEMBRANE; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LASER COAGULATION; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOTHER; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PLACENTA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL CORD;

CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION OF LUNG, CONGENITAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PREGNANCY; TWINS;

EID: 33750533966     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2006.09.003     Document Type: Review

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