The Future of Fetal Surgery

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-758
Author(s):  
Eric Bergh ◽  
Cara Buskmiller ◽  
Anthony Johnson
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2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 1176-1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra Willyard
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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 813-814
Author(s):  
JEROLD F. LUCEY ◽  
EDWARD FRIEDMAN

A NUMBER of research workers in obstetrics, pediatrics, physiology, hematology, pathology, internal medicine, immunology, aerospace medicine, and veterinary science are currently working on problems involving surgical approaches to the fetus in utero. To stimulate and facilitate communications between research workers interested in this new field, a small workshop conference was held in Stowe, Vermont, November 9-11, 1964. This conference was supported by a research grant (HD-01151-01) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and was jointly sponsored by the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the Vermont State Health Department. Three of the papers presented at this conference, and the discussion that followed their presentation, have been selected for rapid publication in this journal because of their immediate clinical interest. The first step toward direct treatment of the human fetus has already been made. It can be anticipated that others will follow. The commonly held myth that one cannot study or treat the fetus without seriously jeopardizing survival will be examined much more critically in the future. Who will be the physician for the fetus of the future remains to be determined. A successful answer will almost certainly require close co-operation between many specialties.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 204-212
Author(s):  
Alejandro Gimenez ◽  
Rachel Kopkin ◽  
Daniel K. Chang ◽  
Michael Belfort ◽  
Edward M. Reece

AbstractScarless healing has long been the holy grail for plastic surgery. While historically fetal surgery has tempted plastic surgeons with the allure of scarless correction of congenital abnormalities, the risks far outweighed the benefits and these interventions never materialized. Current advances in fetal surgery with minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery have made these early fetal interventions safer, leading to expanding applications. While the plastic surgeon's role is limited as of yet, this article provides a review of the history of fetal surgery and the advances that may become relevant to the future plastic surgeon.


1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
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A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).


1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
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Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.


Author(s):  
Godfrey C. Hoskins ◽  
Betty B. Hoskins

Metaphase chromosomes from human and mouse cells in vitro are isolated by micrurgy, fixed, and placed on grids for electron microscopy. Interpretations of electron micrographs by current methods indicate the following structural features.Chromosomal spindle fibrils about 200Å thick form fascicles about 600Å thick, wrapped by dense spiraling fibrils (DSF) less than 100Å thick as they near the kinomere. Such a fascicle joins the future daughter kinomere of each metaphase chromatid with those of adjacent non-homologous chromatids to either side. Thus, four fascicles (SF, 1-4) attach to each metaphase kinomere (K). It is thought that fascicles extend from the kinomere poleward, fray out to let chromosomal fibrils act as traction fibrils against polar fibrils, then regroup to join the adjacent kinomere.


Author(s):  
Nicholas J Severs

In his pioneering demonstration of the potential of freeze-etching in biological systems, Russell Steere assessed the future promise and limitations of the technique with remarkable foresight. Item 2 in his list of inherent difficulties as they then stood stated “The chemical nature of the objects seen in the replica cannot be determined”. This defined a major goal for practitioners of freeze-fracture which, for more than a decade, seemed unattainable. It was not until the introduction of the label-fracture-etch technique in the early 1970s that the mould was broken, and not until the following decade that the full scope of modern freeze-fracture cytochemistry took shape. The culmination of these developments in the 1990s now equips the researcher with a set of effective techniques for routine application in cell and membrane biology.Freeze-fracture cytochemical techniques are all designed to provide information on the chemical nature of structural components revealed by freeze-fracture, but differ in how this is achieved, in precisely what type of information is obtained, and in which types of specimen can be studied.


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