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This chapter contains the illustrative descriptions of the various gestational trophoblastic disease that include molar pregnancies, trophoblastic tumours such as choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumours, epithelioid trophoblastic tumours, and other non-trophoblastic lesions. Epidemiology, clinical features, gross features, and histopathology have also been discussed.
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Dey, P. (2019). Pathology of Trophoblastic Disease. In: Color Atlas of Female Genital Tract Pathology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1029-4_13
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