Fetal surgery for neural tube defects

Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 175-188

  Sutton, Leslie N ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fetal surgery; hydrocephalus; myelomeningocele; spina bifida

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; INDOMETACIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NIFEDIPINE; TERBUTALINE SULFATE;

ANXIETY; BLEEDING TIME; BRAIN HERNIA; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS OBLITERATION; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; GESTATION PERIOD; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; LUNG EDEMA; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SPINA BIFIDA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACHYCARDIA; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL THERAPIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 39049107454     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.07.004     Document Type: Review

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