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Palliative fetal surgery for diaphragmatic hernia
R P Porreco1, J H Chang, B J Quissell
1Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, Denver, Colorado.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is associated with a poor prognosis in spite of advances in antenatal detection and newborn care. Open fetal surgery has been suggested as a strategy for salvaging selected fetuses at high risk for pulmonary hypoplasia as a result of this lesion. We report a strategy for palliative fetal surgery with definitive repair postponed to the newborn period.