Summary Over the past half-century, implementation of high-resolution screening prenatal imaging, coupled with increasingly nuanced understanding of embryology and human fetal development, have created a new surgical patient: the fetus. Through decades of rigorous scientific investigation and technical innovation, congenital…
Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge the literature research and editorial assistance of Alexandra M. Iavorovschi in completing this chapter and Dr. Sarah Chen for making the illustrations for this chapter. The Birth of a New Surgical Specialty Not…
Fetal surgery represents the therapeutic interventions on the maternal-fetal dyad for the benefit of the fetus. The evolution in fetal intervention began with advances in prenatal imaging techniques and genetic testing that allowed clinicians to make early and accurate diagnoses…