Theo Dawson was diagnosed with spina bifida after a 20-week ultrasound and received fetal surgery before he was born.

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Chelsy and Jeff King knew little about spina bifida when an ultrasound showed signs of the condition midway through pregnancy. They soon learned that the defect could be repaired before their baby was ...

Even before Liz Hawkins knew there was something wrong with her pregnancy, she suspected it. Those signs became apparent during her 19-week ultrasound examination, which typically occurs right around ...

Objective: To raise awareness of pseudo-tumours of urinary tract, as pseudo-tumours represent benign mass lesions simulating malignant neoplasms. Accurate diagnosis helps to avoid unnecessary surgery ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Twenty weeks into the pregnancy, Ariel Gilstrap and her husband, Mark, approached her scheduled ultrasound exam with all the anticipation you’d expect for ...

Pregnant women in most countries worldwide are currently offered prenatal screening for spina bifida and other birth defects. The test results are not 100% accurate and there are some false positive ...

HOUSTON — The patient, still inside his mother’s womb, came into focus on flat screens in a darkened operating room. Fingers, toes, the soles of his feet — all exquisite, all perfectly formed. But not ...

"Since day one, we've always told them, 'You can do anything,'" the boys' father, Dave Glad, tells PEOPLE Tonja Glad vividly remembers the day she held the ultrasound of her third child 13 years ago.

The patient, still inside his mother’s womb, comes into focus on flat screens in a darkened operating room. Fingers, toes, the soles of his feet – all exquisite, all perfectly formed. But not so his ...