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When analyzing an individual case, collected data have to be compared to the “normal value” for a particular gestational age. It is a long and almost philosophical debate what can be appreciated as normal—or does it exist at all in setting of postmortem material. Recently published data derived from social termination cases—12–20 weeks of gestation—is probably the nearest to the definition of normal and this model is suitable to minimize postmortem artifacts; however, it does not solve the dilemma for later gestation [1] (Tables 1 and 2).
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Hargitai, B. (2021). Pathological Assessment of Fetal Growth. In: Martinovic, J. (eds) Practical Manual of Fetal Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42492-3_5
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