Potential higher risk of tethered spinal cord in children after prenatal surgery for myelomeningocele: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Jochem K. H. Spoor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jochem K. H. Spoor, Charlotte C. Kik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1183-4775

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• Charlotte C. Kik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jochem K. H. Spoor, Charlotte C. Kik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-8486

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• Marie-Lise C. van Veelen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Clemens Dirven,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Jena L. Miller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy, Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0189-8265

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• Mari L. Groves,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Philip L. J. DeKoninck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Ahmet A. Baschat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy, Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Alex J. Eggink

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: a.eggink@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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