Find out what you need to know about having an ultrasound for your face. Discover the benefits, risks, and how the procedure may affect your health.

Using a transducer, a device that sends out the ultrasound waves, the ultrasound wave will be sent through the patient's body. The sound will be reflected off structures inside the body, and the ...

Anencephaly is a defect in the closure of the neural tube. It is a congenital anomaly characterized by the total or partial absence of the cranial vault, the brain being reduced to a small mass. Most ...

At the time of their most recent unexpected ultrasound findings, 12 (28.6%) women had one or more normal livebirths and no previous history of fetal loss, and 16 (38%) were multiparas with ...

Brain and skull anomalies linked to anencephaly will show on an ultrasound during pregnancy, usually by weeks 12–13. A doctor may also test the pregnant person’s blood for a protein called ...

Pelvic ultrasound scan . A pelvic ultrasound scan uses high frequency sound waves to create a picture of the area between your hip bones (your pelvis). It it sometimes called a gynaecological ...

Anencephaly, craniosynostosis, and encephalocele are three types of skull birth defects. They vary in whether they can be detected before birth, at birth, or later. Anencephaly cannot be treated and ...

Therapeutic ultrasound is a treatment commonly used in physical therapy to provide deep heating to soft tissues in the body. These tissues include muscles, tendons, joints, and ligaments. Ultrasound ...

Those fears came true after an 11-week ultrasound. At another appointment, the doctor said, ‘Austin, it is anencephaly," she said.

In the spring of 1991, in the border city of Brownsville, TX, USA, a woman learned from an ultrasound that her unborn baby had anencephaly. A month later, at the same hospital, anencephaly was ...