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Maturity Anomalies

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Pathology of the Placenta

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The microscopic appearance of the placental parenchyma should under normal circumstances be appropriate to the stage of gestation, reflecting the balance of growth and differentiation that enables fetal requirements to be met. Abnormalities of parenchymal development may result in patterns that are described as either accelerated or delayed for gestation. This chapter discusses these appearances and their associations and emphasizes the clinical relevance of recognition of maturation abnormalities.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pathology, Paediatric and Pregnancy Related Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Gitta Turowski

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

    Eoghan E. Mooney

  3. Queen Mary University College Medical School, London, UK

    Irene B. Scheimberg

  4. Department of Cellular Pathology, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

    Irene B. Scheimberg

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Correspondence to Eoghan E. Mooney .

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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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Turowski, G., Mooney, E.E., Scheimberg, I.B. (2019). Maturity Anomalies. 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_14

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