The PLUTO trial: A missed opportunity

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9903, 2013, Pages 1471-1473

  Van Mieghem, Tim ^a   Ryan, Greg ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYSTOSTOMY; FETAL THERAPY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LASER SURGERY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS VESICOAMNIOTIC SHUNTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHUNTING; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SURVIVAL RATE; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 84886783767     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61446-4     Document Type: Note

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