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Embryology of the Female Genital Tract

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Blaustein’s Pathology of the Female Genital Tract

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The fertilized ovum reaches the uterine cavity in about 4 days as a morula of 12 to 16 cells. After developing a blastocoele and losing the zona pellucida, it implants on approximately the sixth day after conception. By the eighth day, the blastocyst consists of a chorionic membrane containing within it a bilaminar embryonic disk, separating the amniotic and yolk sac cavities. By the 11th or 12th day, the trophoblastic portion of the chorionic membrane shows clear-cut differentiation into cytotrophoblast, intermediate trophoblast, and syncytiotrophoblast.7

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  1. Tim Parmley M.D.
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  1. Departments of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 20007, Washington, DC, USA

    Robert J. Kurman M.D. (Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director) (Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director)

  2. Gynecologic Pathology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA

    Robert J. Kurman M.D. (Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director) (Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director)

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Parmley, T. (1987). Embryology of the Female Genital Tract. In: Kurman, R.J. (eds) Blaustein’s Pathology of the Female Genital Tract. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1942-0_1

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