Intrathoracic pressure in congenital chylothorax: Keystone for the rationale of thoracoamniotic shunting?

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-171

  Yamamoto, Masami ^a   Insunza, Alvaro ^a   Carrillo, Jorge ^a   Caicedo, Luis Alberto ^a   Paiva, Enrique ^a   Ville, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Fetal pleural effusion; Intrathoracic pressure; Non immune fetal hydrops; Thoracoamniotic shunt

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

AMNION; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CESAREAN SECTION; CHYLOTHORAX; DETRITUS; DIAPHRAGM DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; HUMAN; HYDROPS; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SKIN EDEMA; THORACOAMNIOTIC SHUNT; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PRESSURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TWIN PREGNANCY;

AMNION; CHYLOTHORAX; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL THERAPIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRESSURE; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 34247170763     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098709     Document Type: Article

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