Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1076-1077

  Simpson, Joe Leigh ^a   Greene, Michael F ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HERNIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; EDITORIAL; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN SURGERY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE COMPLICATION; WALKING;

EID: 79952804446     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1101228     Document Type: Editorial

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