BookT. Yee Khong, Roger D. G. Malcomson, editors.
Summary: This sixth edition provides an overview of fetal and neonatal pathology through a system-based approach. This book contains new chapters on immunology, with a continued focus on molecular aspects of pathology in the perinatal setting. The general principles of perinatal pathology and their clinical situations are also discussed, along with specific pathological entities and their organ systems. Keeling's Fetal and Neonatal Pathology, sixth edition aims to help the reader treat common problems through anatomical pathology findings and is relevant to practicing and trainee pathologists, obstetricians, maternal and fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists, and pediatricians.
Contents:
1. The Perinatal Postmortem from a Clinician's Viewpoint
2. The Perinatal Necropsy
3. Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Development and Disease
4. The Placenta and Umbilical Cord
5. Perinatal Imaging
6. Epidemiology of Fetal and Neonatal Death
7. Pathology of Early Pregnancy Loss
8. Congenital Abnormalities: Prenatal Diagnosis and Screening
9. The Impact of Infection During Pregnancy on the Mother and Baby
10. Perinatal Hematology
11. Genetic Metabolic Disease
12. Fetal Hydrops
13. Pathology of Twinning
14. Macerated Stillbirth
15. Intrapartum Problems
16. Prematurity
17. Iatrogenic Disease
18. Congenital Tumors
19. The Cardiovascular System
20. The Respiratory System
21. The Alimentary Tract and Exocrine Pancreas
22. Liver and Gallbladder
23. The Urinary System
24. The Reproductive System
25. The Endocrine System
26. The Reticuloendothelial System
27. Brain Malformations
28. Degenerative and Metabolic Brain Diseases
29. Acquired Diseases of the Nervous System
30. Skeletal Muscle and Peripheral Nerves
31. The Skeletal System
32. The Skin
33. The Special Senses
34. Forensic Aspects of Perinatal Pathology
35. General pathology
36. Pathology in different organ systems
37. Immunology.