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Diagnostic entities characterized by villous hypervascularity (so-called villous capillary lesions) fall into three categories: chorangiosis, multifocal chorangiomatosis, and chorangioma. One rare variant of the latter, the multiple chorangioma syndrome, can recur in subsequent pregnancies. The underlying causes of villous capillary lesions are incompletely understood but are believed to involve excessive angiogenesis.

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    Raymond W. Redline, Christina Bagby & Sanjita Ravishankar

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  1. Department of Anatomical Pathology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia

    T. Yee Khong

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Eoghan E. Mooney

  3. Department of Pathology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Peter G. J. Nikkels

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Redline, R.W., Bagby, C., Ravishankar, S. (2019). Hypervascularity. In: Khong, T., Mooney, E., Nikkels, P., Morgan, T., Gordijn, S. (eds) Pathology of the Placenta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97214-5_24

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