Handbook of Placental Pathology explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face.

Features:

• Provides a user-friendly source of information on placental pathology
• Covers all pertinent diagnostic aspects of placental pathology as encountered by the perinatologist, obstetrician, or pathologist
• Includes all discussions of recently discovered pathology such as associated with maternal thrombopholias
• Discusses recently developed genetic probes and other ancillary studies

Contents

• Development of the Placenta
• Structure of the Placenta
• Examination of the Placenta in the Clinical Setting
• Clinical Data to be Sent to the Pathologist
• Indications for Pathological Examination
• Pathologic Examination of the Placenta
• Gross Abnormalities of the Placenta
• Histologic Lesions of the Placenta
• Lesions of the Placenta as a Whole of of the Placental Disk
• Lesions of the Umbilical Cord
• Lesions of the Membranes
• Abnormalities of the Decidua
• Lesions of the Placenta in Maternal Disorders
• Lesions of the Placenta in Fetal Disorders
• Iatrogenic Lesions of the Placenta
• Traumatic Lesions of the Placenta
• Placenta in Pregnancies After In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Embryo Transfer (ET)
• Specimens Related to Placental Laser Surgery

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