Omphalocele

Alaattin Kacar, MD Faruk Dincsahin, MD Jale Gurluler, MD Gulin Okan, MD Melike Yildirim, MD

Jimer Bursa Turkey

This is a 39-year-old-woman with unremarkable past obstetrical history. An ultrasound examination performed at 28 weeks revealed an omphalocele containing liver and bowels. Here are some of the images we obtained.

Images 1, 2. Sagittal (left) and transverse (right) planes throughout the omphalocele containing liver tissue.

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Images 3, 4. Transverse planes throughout omphalocele.

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Images 5, 6. Sagittal planes throughout omphalocele (left) and color Doppler imagination of umbilical vein directing to omphalocele (right).

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