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Cord Knots and Pseudo-Knots

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Pathology of the Placenta

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Knots can form in the umbilical cord. Tight knots that cause vascular obstruction can result in adverse fetal outcomes. In contrast, pseudo-knots are focal redundancies in the cord that mimic true knots but have no clinical significance.

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    Kenneth Tou En Chang & Sze Jet Aw

  2. Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    Kenneth Tou En Chang

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  1. Department of Anatomical Pathology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia

    T. Yee Khong

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Eoghan E. Mooney

  3. Department of Pathology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Peter G. J. Nikkels

  4. Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Terry K. Morgan

  5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Sanne J. Gordijn

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Chang, K.T.E., Aw, S.J. (2019). Cord Knots and Pseudo-Knots. 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_48

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