The purposes of a study by Adra et al. (A-38) were to assess the influence of route of delivery on neonatal outcome in fetuses with gastroschisis and to correlate ultrasonographic appearance of the fetal bowel with immediate postnatal outcome. Among 27 cases of prenatally diagnosed gastroschisis the ultrasonograph appearance of the fetal bowel was normal in 15.

Postoperative complications were observed in two of the 15 and in seven of the cases in which the ultrasonographic appearance was not normal.