Handbook of Placental Pathology

A user-friendly text, this book explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face. Succinct and accessible, the text includes discussions of lesions associated with maternal thrombophilias, updates in disorders with challenging clinicopathologic features and pathogenesis. The new edition contains updated sections on conditions such as preeclampsia and maternal diabetes mellitus, covers the use of technology such as molecular genetic probes and other newly developed ancillary studies to confirm diagnosis in problematic cases, and includes illustrations of umbilical cord, membranes, parenchymal and maternal surface abnormalities.

'This book is recommended for all those who examine placentas, especially pathologists and their trainees. The volume serves as both a concise survey of placental pathology and a quick reference during sign-out and is a strong contribution to the growing armamentarium of placental pathology reference texts.' - Corinne L. Fligner, MD, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology 10, 72, 2007