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Article: Placental Chorangiosis.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
- Author:
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A Placenta from a 39-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 0, with pre-eclampsia was received for routine pathologic examination. She was admitted to the hospital at term in labor She presented with facial and ankle edema and elevated blood pressure with diastolic pressure in the 90s. She also had proteinuria of +1.
Labor was induced with Pitocin, but fetal monitoring showed tachycardia with decreased variability. The patient was taken to the operating room for cesarean section. A healthy baby boy was delivered; he weighed 3050 g and had an Apgar score of 9 at 1 minute.
The placenta weighed 625 g and was grossly unremarkable. Microscopically it showed an ...