Pathology of the Placenta

Section 1. Background

Chapter 1.      Introduction. An approach to placental pathology

Chapter 2.      Placental Development with Expected Normal Gross and Microscopic Findings

Chapter 3.      Indications for examining the placenta

 

Section 2. Gross examination

Chapter 4.      Gross examination

Chapter 5.      Placental Weight, Shape, and Gross Vascular Morphology

 

Section 3. Placental disc: Macroscopically Visible Lesions

Chapter 6.      Infarction

Chapter 7.      Intervillous thrombosis

Chapter 8.      Massive perivillous fibrin deposition, maternal floor infarct

Chapter 9.      Retroplacental haemorrhage, marginal haemorrhage

Chapter 10.    Fetal Vascular Thrombosis

Chapter 11.    Extravillous trophoblast cyst

 

Section 4.   Placental disc: Microscopic Lesions

Chapter 12.    Acute ChorioamnionitisChapter 13.    Chorionic plate chronic inflammatory lesions including eosinophilic/T-cell chorionic vasculitis



Chapter 14.    Maturity anomalies

Chapter 15.    Distal villous hypoplasia

Chapter 16.    Placental mesenchymal dysplasia Chapter 17.    Increased syncytial knot formation



Chapter 18.    Persistence of cytotrophoblast

Chapter 19.    Mineralization of trophoblast basement membrane

Chapter 20.    Trophoblast and stroma:  vacuolation - inherited disorder of metabolism

Chapter 21.    Villous oedema

Dr. T. Yee Khong, MBChB, MD, MSc, FRCPath, FRCPA, FAMM, GAICD, is a Consultant Pathologist at SA Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia. He qualified in medicine from University of Sheffield, UK and did his pathology training at St George's Hospital Medical School, London and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. He is Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynaecology, at the University of Adelaide and a former President of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.
Dr. Eoghan Mooney, MBChB, MRCPI, FRCPath, FFPath (RCPI), was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he now lives and works. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin). Following pathology training in Dublin and in Duke University, North Carolina, USA he completed his Fellowship in Gynaecologic and Breast pathology in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC. He has been a consultant pathologist for 17 years, based in the National Maternity Hospital and St Vincent's University Hospital and has published in the area of placental pathology for 20years.
Dr. Peter G.J. Nikkels, MD, PhD, is a staff member in the Department of Pathology, University Hospital Utrecht, the Netherlands. He qualified in medicine from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and did his pathology training at the Department of Pathology, University Hospital Groningen, the Netherlands where he became a consultant pathologist. He has published extensively in placental pathology.
Dr. Terry K. Morgan, MD, PhD, completed residency training, a surgical pathology fellowship and cytopathology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He is Associate Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is the director of placental pathology and the focus of his research laboratory is to determine how abnormal blood flow to the placenta leads to common maternal pregnancy complications and fetal

"This book is intended as a resource for practicing anatomic pathologists in a community or academic hospital setting. As the book provides significant correlation between macroscopic and microscopic findings, it is excellent for pathology residents and/or fellows who may both gross and microscopically evaluate a placental specimen. Additionally, it may serve as an additional reference for clinical obstetricians or pediatricians specializing in neonatology." (Lauren Stanoszek, Doody's Book Reviews, July 26, 2019)