Fetal surgery for spina bifida: Past, present, future

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-17

  Scott Adzick, N ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal surgery; Hydrocephalus; Management of Myelomeningocele Study; MOMS trial; Myelomeningocele; Prenatal diagnosis; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPECTANT MOTHER; FETUS SURGERY; GENETIC SCREENING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHOMBENCEPHALON; RISK FACTOR; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT;

FEMALE; FETAL THERAPIES; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873539582     PISSN: 10558586     EISSN: 15329453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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