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Placental disease
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A placental disease is any disease, disorder, or pathology of the placenta. The article also covers placentation abnormalities, which is often used synonymously for placental disease.[1][2]

Pathology

Adherence/penetration

Inflammatory/infectious

Placental development

Obstruction of os

Vascular

Neoplastic

Trophoblastic neoplasms derive from trophoblastic tissue. Examples include:

References

  1. ^ Furuya M, Ishida J, Aoki I, Fukamizu A (2008). "Pathophysiology of placentation abnormalities in pregnancy-induced hypertension". Vasc Health Risk Manag. 4 (6): 1301–13. PMC 2663465. PMID 19337544.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Cheng MH, Wang PH (January 2009). "Placentation abnormalities in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia". Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 9 (1): 37–49. doi:10.1586/14737159.9.1.37. PMID 19099348.