January/February 2000, Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 63 - 65

Perinatal/Neonatal Casebooks

Placental Pathology Casebook: Serpentine Aneurysms of the Placenta with Fetal Consequences Kurt Benirschke, MD, Section Editor, Peilin Zhang, MD & Kurt Benirschke, MD Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA.     Correspondence to: Kurt Benirschke, MD, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103-8321.

Abstract

Two cases of placental surface vessel aneurysms are presented. One case was associated with severe fetal intrauterine growth restriction and fetal thrombocytopenia. The other case was associated with "molar transformation" of placental villous tissue.

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