Urology
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 1093-1096 , December 1999

Ethical considerations of fetal urology: summary of the Twenty-Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for Fetal Urology

This paper was presented at the Society for Fetal Urology Conference in Dallas, Texas, May 1999.

  • Timothy P Bukowski

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric Urology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Timothy P. Bukowski, M.D., Division of Urology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 427 Burnett-Womack Building, Campus Box 7235, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7235

Received 2 July 1999 ,Revised 2 August 1999 ,Accepted 2 August 1999.

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Urology
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 1093-1096 , December 1999

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