Prenatal surgery for myelomeningocele and the need for cerebrospinal fluid shunt placement.
Tulipan N, Wellons JC 3rd, Thom EA, Gupta N, Sutton LN, Burrows PK, Farmer D, Walsh W, Johnson MP, Rand L, Tolivaisa S, D'alton ME, Adzick NS; MOMS Investigators.
Tulipan N, et al.
J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015 Dec;16(6):613-20. doi: 10.3171/2015.7.PEDS15336. Epub 2015 Sep 15.
J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015.
PMID: 26369371
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The authors used logistic regression to estimate whether there were interactions between the type of surgery and known prenatal risk factors (lesion level, gestational age, degree of hindbrain herniation, and ventricle size) for shunt placement, and to determine which fact …
The authors used logistic regression to estimate whether there were interactions between the type of surgery and known prenatal risk factors …