Fetal neurosurgery: Current state of the art

Future Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-171

  Saadai, Payam ^a   Runyon, Timothy ^a   Farmer, Diana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

congenital neurodegenerative disorder; fetal neurosurgery; fetal surgery; gene therapy; hydrocephalus; myelomeningocele; spina bifida; stem cellstem cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; DISEASE REGISTRY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING;

EID: 79952608653     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.11.3     Document Type: Article

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