The making of fetal surgery

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 653-667

  Deprest, Jan A ^a,b   Flake, Alan W ^c   Gratacos, Eduard ^b,d   Ville, Yves ^b,e   Hecher, Kurt ^b,f   Nicolaides, Kypros ^b,g   Johnson, Mark P ^c   Luks, François I ^h   Adzick, N Scott ^c   Harrison, Michael R ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Eurofoetus Consortium ^*  (Belgium)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^g KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal surgery; Fetal therapy; Fetoscopy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AMNION BAND SYNDROME; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; FETAL THERAPY; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETOSCOPY; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACROCOCCYX TERATOMA; SHUNTING; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; URINARY TRACT;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PREGNANCY; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 77954139690     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2571     Document Type: Review

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