Intrauterine shunt for obstructive hydrocephalus - Still not ready

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 532-539

  Bruner, Joseph P ^a   Davis, George ^a   Tulipan, Noel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal surgery; Hydrocephalus; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN AQUEDUCT STENOSIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPHAGIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYSTEROTOMY; KARYOTYPE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MACROCEPHALY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRIC CARE; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PERITONEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL DISEASE; SCAPULA; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNTING; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYSTEROTOMY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 33751349231     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095668     Document Type: Article

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