Robotic-Assisted, Ultrasound-Guided Abdominal Cerclage During Pregnancy: Overcoming Minimally Invasive Surgery Limitations?

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 398-400

  Walsh, Teresa M ^a   Borahay, Mostafa A ^a   Fox, Karin A ^a   Kilic, Gokhan S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal cerclage; Cerclage; Cervical insufficiency; Da Vinci robot; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CASE REPORT; CERCLAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOMETRA; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LITHOTOMY POSITION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONEUM; PREGNANCY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROCAR; ULTRASOUND SURGERY; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA;

ADULT; CERCLAGE, CERVICAL; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84877613529     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: 15534669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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