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Placental pathology is an autopsy of the pregnancy and provides useful gross and histopathologic information to help explain why the pregnancy was complicated. Many of the authors of this book met in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2014, Portland, OR, USA in 2016, and again in Dublin, Ireland in 2018, to discuss diagnostic criteria and frontiers in placental pathology. Undoubtedly, there will be many other frontiers but a few that we discussed are briefly summarized in this chapter:
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Morgan, T.K. (2019). Frontiers in Placental Pathology. In: Khong, T., Mooney, E., Nikkels, P., Morgan, T., Gordijn, S. (eds) Pathology of the Placenta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97214-5_58
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