Maternal-fetal surgery: Where are we and how did we get here?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 717-731

  Chescheir, Nancy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FAMILY COUNSELING; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS SURGERY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINA BIFIDA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UTERUS SURGERY; ANIMAL; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CLASSIFICATION; COUNSELING; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

ANIMALS; BALLOON OCCLUSION; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 64249166947     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318197c28f     Document Type: Review

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