Placental Pathology for the Obstetrician

Ona M. Faye-Petersen, MD, is President-Elect of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and Professor both in Pathology and in Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; Amelia Sutton, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology /Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; Debra S. Heller, MD, is Professor both in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Womens Health, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, USA.

Introduction. Overview of Placental Development, Clinical Evaluation, What to Tell the Pathologist. Clinically Identified Pathology of Placental Implantation; Umbilical Cord and Arterial Blood Flow; Membranes; Chorionic Plate; Parenchyma; Materno-Placental Interface. Multiple Gestations. Clinicopathologic Correlates of Ascending Intrauterine Infection. Clinicopathologic Correlates of Maternal Hypertensive Disorders. Clinicopathologic Correlates of Fetal Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Clinicopathologic Correlates of Maternal Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity. Clinicopathologic Correlates of Hydrops Fetalis. Clinicopathologic Correlates of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease and "Pseudomolar" Gestations. Glossary of Terminology.