Spina bifida

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Copp, Andrew J ^a   Adzick, N Scott ^b   Chitty, Lyn S ^a   Fletcher, Jack M ^c   Holmbeck, Grayson N ^d   Shaw, Gary M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FOLIC ACID;

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS SURGERY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEWBORN SURGERY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCREENING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPINE SURGERY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROCEDURES;

FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 85017250873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2015.7     Document Type: Article

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