2000-08-28-10 Pseudo-omphalocele © Jeanty www.thefetus.net/

Pseudo-omphalocele

Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD; Gloria Valero, MD

This 12 week fetus has what appears to be a small omphalocele.( 830 kB video-clip). The second part of the clip, however, obtained at 14 weeks is totally normal. So this is an example of physiological herniation of the bowl.