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Umbilical Cord Tumours

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The umbilical cord is rarely affected by neoplastic growths. Cord haemangiomas are benign vascular lesions that may be extensively myxoid, in which case they are referred to as angiomyxomas. Cord teratomas are extremely rare cord tumours similar to teratomas arising in other sites.

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    Kenneth Tou En Chang & Sze Jet Aw

  2. Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    Kenneth Tou En Chang

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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

  4. Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Terry K. Morgan

  5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Sanne J. Gordijn

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Chang, K.T.E., Aw, S.J. (2019). Umbilical Cord Tumours. 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_49

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