Gasless fetoscopy: A new approach to endoscopic closure of a lumbar skin defect in fetal sheep

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-298

  Pedreira, D A L ^a,b   Oliveira, R C S ^a   Valente, P R ^a   Abou Jamra, R C ^a   Araujo A ^a   Saldiva, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal models; Endoscopy; Fetoscopy; Meningomyelocele; Sheep, spina bifida, open

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EWE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; GAS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYSTEROTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SKIN DEFECT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SUTURING METHOD;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SKIN ABNORMALITIES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 42449117649     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000123616     Document Type: Article

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