Bookby Kurt Benirschke, Graham J. Burton, Rebecca N. Baergen.
Summary: Pathology of the Human Placenta remains the most comprehensive and authoritative text in the field. It provides extensive information on the normal placenta, encompassing physiology, metabolism, and endocrinology, and covers placental diseases in great detail. The conditions discussed include shape aberrations, villous alterations and maldevelopment, erythroblastosis fetalis and hydrops fetalis, transplacental hemorrhage, fetal storage disorders, diverse maternal diseases, and infectious diseases. Further chapters are devoted to abortions, molar pregnancies, trophoblastic neoplasms, benign tumors, and multiple pregnancies. Legal considerations are carefully explored, and this new edition also includes a completely new chapter on artificial reproductive technology. In other respects, too, the book has been extensively revised and expanded, with wide-ranging updates that reflect the most recent progress in the field. Some 800 illustrations are included, many of them in color. The detailed index has been further improved and tables updated. Pathology of the Human Placenta will be of enormous value to pathologists and obstetrician-gynecologists alike.
Contents:
Examination of the Placenta
Macroscopic Features of the Delivered Placenta
Microscopic Survey
Placental Types
Early Development of the Human Placenta
Basic Structure of the Villous Tree
Architecture of Normal Villous Trees
Characterization of the Developmental Stages
Nonvillous Parts and Trophoblast Invasion
Involution of Implantation Site
Retained Placenta
Anatomy and Pathology of the Placental Membranes
Anatomy and Pathology of the Umbilical Cord
Placental Shape Aberrations
Histopathological Approach to Villous Alterations
Villous Maldevelopment
Erythroblastosis Fetalis and Hydrops Fetalis
Transplacental Hemorrhage, Cell Transfer, Trauma.-Fetal Storage Disorders
Maternal Diseases Complicating Pregnancy: Diabetes, Tumors
Infectious Diseases
Abortion, Placentas of Trisomies, and Immunological Recurrent Reproductive Failure
Molar Pregnancies
Trophoblastic NeoplasmsBenign Tumors
Chorangiosis
Multiple Pregnancies
Legal Considerations
Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART)
Glossary
Normative Values and Table
Index.