Early prenatal diagnosis of gastroschisis with transvaginal ultrasonography.

Am J Obstet Gynecol

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Vincent's Medical Center of Richmond, Staten Island, New York.

Published: May 1990

A case is reported in which gastroschisis was definitively diagnosed at 12 3/7 weeks' gestation by transvaginal ultrasonography. This is the earliest diagnosis reported in the literature and would seem to support the theory that gastroschisis and omphalocele are embryologically distinct entities.

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