Neural Tube Defects: From Origin to Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780195166033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 424 str.

Diego F Wyszynski

Opis

Neural tube defects affect about 4000 pregnancies each year and are thus among the most common of severe birth defects. Prenatal diagnosis can now detect about 70% of neural tube defects but the tests produce many false positives, so the question is under what circumstances should they be recommended. This comprehensive volume - the collective knowledge of more than 55 experts in the field - provides lucid and authoritative discussions on this topic as well as on a wide variety of theoretical, experimental, and clinical issues.

Recenzje

This is an impressive and readable synopsis of the currently available knowledge about this tragic error of early embryological development, and the sequelae which can be so far-reaching and devastating. It serves to illustrate just how much we know, and with all this at our disposal, it might suggest that we are tantalisingly close to the end of the story.