Handbook of placental pathology [electronic resource] / Ona Marie Faye-Petersen, Debra S. Heller, Vijay V. Joshi.
This book explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face. Succinct and accessible, the text includes discussions of lesions associated with maternal thrombophilias, updates in disorders with challenging clinicopathologic features and pathogenesis. The new edition con...
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London ; New York : Andover, UK :
Taylor & Francis ; Distributed in the UK by Thomson Pub. Services,
2006.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Authors� Acknowledgments""; ""Individual Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Development of the Placenta""; ""3. Structure of the Placenta""; ""4. Examination of the Placenta in the Clinical Setting""; ""5. Clinical Data to be Sent to the Pathologist: How Can the Obstetrician Ensure Optimal/Meaningful Pathologic Examination?""; ""6. Indications for Pathologic Examination""; ""7. Pathologic Examination of the Placenta: Retention of the Specimen and Surgical Pathology Report""
- ""8. Gross Abnormalities of the Placenta: Lesions Due to Disturbances of Maternal and of Fetal Blood Flow""""9. Histologic Lesions of the Placenta: Villi, Fetal Stem Arteries, Intervillous Space and Maternal Arteries in Decidua""; ""10. Lesions of the Placenta as a Whole or of the Placental Disk""; ""11. Lesions of the Umbilical Cord""; ""12. Lesions of the Membranes""; ""13. Abnormalities of the Decidua""; ""14. Lesions of the Placenta Associated with Pathologic Maternal Clinical Presentations and/or Underlying Maternal Disorders""
- ""15. Findings and Lesions of the Placenta Reflecting Fetal Conditions""""16. Iatrogenic Lesions of the Placenta, Umbilical Cord, and Membranes""; ""17. Traumatic Lesions of the Placenta""; ""18. Placentas After Assisted Reproductive Technologies""; ""19. Placental Features Following Intrauterine Vascular Laser Ablation Procedures""; ""20. Final Comment""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""