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placental villous dysmorphism
Tuesday 14 December 2004
Synopsis
intravillous trophoblastic pseudoinclusions
mild trophoblastic hyperplasia (mimicking the morphology of partial hydatidiform mole)
Etiology
numerical chromosomal anomalies
- triploidy
- tetraploidy
- trisomies
structural chromosomal anomalies
- del(18)(q21)
References
Rakheja D, Wilson KS, Rogers BB. Dysmorphic villi mimicking partial mole in a case with del(18)(q21).Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2004 Sep-Oct;7(5):546-8. PMID: 15547780