Fetal endoscopic myelomeningocele closure preserves segmental neurological function

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-22

  Verbeek, Renate J ^a   Heep, Axel ^b   Maurits, Natalia M ^a   Cremer, Reinhold ^c   Hoving, Eelco W ^a   Brouwer, Oebele F ^a   van der Hoeven, Johannes H ^a   Sival, Deborah A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FETALLY OPERATED SPINAL BIFIDA APERTA; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GERMANY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ULTRASOUND DENSITY; MYOTOME; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEONATALLY OPERATED SPINA BIFIDA APERTA; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POSTNATAL MYELOMENINGOCELE CLOSURE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRENATAL ENDOSCOPIC MYELOMENINGOCELE CLOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGMENTAL NEUROLOGICAL LEG DISEASE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 83855163426     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04148.x     Document Type: Article

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