Omphalocele: comparison of outcome following prenatal or postnatal diagnosis.

The article presents a study that compares the outcome of prenatal to postnatal diagnosis of liveborn infants with isolated or non-isolated omphalocele. A retrospective analysis of prenatally and postnatally diagnosed cases of omphalocele collected from the ultrasound and patient database of the Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine and the Department of Pediatric Surgery was used. The study concluded that patients with prenatal diagnosis was turned out to have associated anomalies.