Severe micrognathia: Indications for EXIT-to-Airway

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 162-166

  Morris, Lee M ^a   Lim, Foong Yen ^a   Elluru, Ravindhra G ^a   Hopkin, Robert J ^a   Jaekle, Ronald K ^a   Polzin, William J ^a   Crombleholme, Timothy M ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EXIT; Jaw Index; Micrognathia; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; EX UTERO INTRAPARTUM TREATMENT PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; LARYNGEAL MASK; MICROGNATHIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MICROGNATHISM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72049090629     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000240162     Document Type: Article

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