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The Placental Pathology Report

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Pathology of the Placenta

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The placental pathology report is an essential but often overlooked element in the communication of pathologic findings to clinicians. This chapter will first discuss the utility of the placental pathology report and the different uses clinicians may have for it. Next, the basic format of a placental pathology report will be described. The significance of each section will be assessed. Finally, formatting techniques that can make a placental pathology report less confusing and more easily understandable to the clinicians will be presented.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Paediatric and Pregnancy Related Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Gitta Turowski

  2. Histopathology Department, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia

    Susan Arbuckle

  3. Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    W. Tony Parks

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Correspondence to W. Tony Parks .

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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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Turowski, G., Arbuckle, S., Parks, W.T. (2019). The Placental Pathology Report. 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_57

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