Is a vesicoamniotic shunt intrinsically bad? Shunting a normal fetal bladder

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2002-2006

  Kitagawa, Hiroaki ^a   Pringle, Kevin C ^b   Koike, Junki ^a   Nagae, Hideki ^a   Zuccollo, Jane ^b   Aoba, Takeshi ^a   Seki, Yasuji ^a   Nagae, Chiai ^a   Tadokoro, Mamoru ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fetal surgery; Fetal vesicoamniotic shunt; Normal bladder; Posterior urethral valve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER COMPLIANCE; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FILLING; BLADDER FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS BLADDER; FETUS SURGERY; LAMB; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA VALVE;

AMNION; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY BLADDER; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 36849005403     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.08.019     Document Type: Article

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