Fetal endoscopic myelomeningocele repair

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-5

  Shurtleff, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CESAREAN SECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NOTE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA;

EID: 83855163427     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04141.x     Document Type: Note

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