What Is A Congenital Anomaly?
Question: What is a congenital anomaly?
Answer: These are differences in brain–spinal cord development that are present from birth (sometimes noticed later). Diagnosis is made through clinical evaluation and appropriate imaging/tests.
“The frequency of neural tube defects such as spina bifida varies by country and time period; in the literature, rates in different populations have been reported at the level of a few cases per 10,000 births.”