Fetal surgery is any of a broad range of surgical techniques that are used to treat birth defects in fetuses who are still in the pregnant uterus.
- Open fetal surgery involves completely opening the uterus to operate on the fetus.
- Minimally invasive fetoscopic surgery (fetendo) uses small incisions and is guided by fetoscopy and sonography.
- Some fetal surgery can sometimes be done without either an incision in the uterus or an endoscopic view inside the uterus: it is done entirely with a real-time cross-sectional view provided by the sonogram.
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