Current status and prospects of fetoscopic surgery for spina bifida in human fetuses: Response to Fichter et al: Fetal spina bifida repair - Current trends and prospects of intrauterine neurosurgery (Fetal Diagn Ther 2008;23:271-286)

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 318-320

  Kohl, Thomas ^a   Gembruch, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AMNION FLUID; ANESTHESIA; FETOSCOPY; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; LETTER; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOSCOPY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREGNANCY; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 52849105184     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000158549     Document Type: Letter

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