Hypercoiling of the umbilical cord and placental maturation defect: Associated pathology?

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-299

  De Laat, Monique W M ^a   Van Der Meij, Jacqueline J C ^a   Visser, Gerard H A ^a   Franx, Arie ^b   Nikkels, Peter G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fetal death; Fetal hypoxia; Hypercoiling; Placental maturation defect; Umbilical coiling index; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCHAL CORD; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA VILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; CAPILLARY; CHORION VILLUS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ERYTHROBLAST; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TORSION; UMBILICAL CORD; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CAPILLARIES; CHORIONIC VILLI; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HYPOXIA; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TORSION; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 34548570542     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/06-01-0015.1     Document Type: Article

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