Correction to: Forensic Sci Med Pathol (2020) 16:295–312 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-019–00214-2

The article A practical guide to placental examination for forensic pathologists was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 24 December 2019 without open access. After publication in volume [16], issue [2], pages [295–312] the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.

The original article has been corrected.