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01.10.2010 | Letter-Reply
Fetoscopic surgery for spina bifida: surgically important differences between the ovine model and the clinical situation encountered with humans
verfasst von:
Thomas Kohl
Erschienen in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Ausgabe 10/2010
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I thank Dr. Pedreira for her appreciation of our article describing our early clinical experience using partial amniotic carbon dioxide insufflation (PACI) during minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery [
1]. We respond to some surgically important differences between her simplified fetoscopic correction technique developed with sheep fetuses [
2] and the clinical situation encountered treating human fetuses with spina bifida aperta [
3]. …