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A Novel Surgical Approach for Intratracheal Administration of Bioactive Agents in a Fetal Mouse Model
Published on: October 31, 2012
A case of a gunshot wound to the fetus in utero
Mitchell R Ladd1, Kathryn Shaw, Sara Munoz-Blanco
1From the Division of Pediatric Surgery (M.R.L., K.S., S.D., K.S., I.W.N., D.S.), Bloomberg Children's Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Department of General Surgery (M.R.L.), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Division of Neonatology (S.M.B., M.G.), Bloomberg Children's Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; and Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics (S.N.E.), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
|January 19, 2017
Abstract
No abstract available in PubMed .
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