OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between @entity2241 and other defects, and outcome in relation to postnatal surgery. METHODS: All cases of @entity5149 presenting to the fetal medicine unit between 1993 and 1998 and cases of @entity5149 presenting to the ultrasound department between 1991 and 1998 were examined. The @entity1 were followed-up to determine the number of cases that had structural or positional @entity5149 and the number of cases requiring surgery. RESULTS: There were 76 cases, 59 of which attended the fetal medicine unit and 17 the ultrasound department. Postnatal follow-up details were available in 31 of the 40 live births. There were three neonates with @entity5149 at birth who were thought to have @entity5149 on prenatal ultrasound and one neonate had @entity5149 at birth who had been thought to have @entity5149 prenatally. In two (6.4%) neonates in whom @entity5149 was not confirmed at birth the abnormality was diagnosed prenatally. Of the 29 neonates with confirmed @entity5149 at birth, the defect was structural in 26 (90%) cases and positional in three. Surgery was necessary in 21 (72%) of the 29 cases and 18 (86%) of those undergoing surgery required only one operation. When live births with associated anomalies were excluded, there were 24 cases with confirmed @entity5149 and 18 (75%) required surgery. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides long-term outcome data which can be used to complement current prenatal counseling and shows that in cases of @entity2241 diagnosed prenatally, 90% have a structural rather than a positional @entity85 . For @entity5149 three quarters of @entity1 will require surgery and in the majority of cases only one operation on the foot is necessary. Parents should be made aware of the small possibility of a false-positive diagnosis and discrepancy between the ultrasound and postnatal diagnoses of laterality.

Outcome of XXXX following in utero sonographic diagnosis.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'infants'] @entity85 :: ('MESH:D009140', 'Disease') :: ['deformity'] @entity5149 :: ('MESH:D003025', 'Disease') :: ['unilateral talipes', 'isolated talipes', 'bilateral talipes', 'talipes'] @entity2241 :: ('MESH:D005315', 'Disease') :: ['fetal talipes']
@entity2241 :: (MESH:D005315,Disease) :: ['fetal talipes']
