Structural changes of placenta in preeclamptic patients: Light and electron microscopic study

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-225

  Saleh, Reda Awadallah ^a   Dkhil, Mohamed Abdel Monem ^b  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Helwan University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Histology; Placenta; Preeclamptic patients

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRONS; HEALTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUTRIENTS; OBSTETRICS; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SELF ASSEMBLY; TISSUE;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; DIGITAL SCANNING; END-DIASTOLIC (ED); HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE (HBP); ISCHEMIC DAMAGE; MICROSCOPIC STUDY; NUTRIENT TRANSFER; PREECLAMPSIA; STRUCTURAL CHANGES; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES; UMBILICAL ARTERY (UA);

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMATOSIS; BIOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DELIVERY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; FIBROSIS; GAS TRANSPORT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; NUTRIENT; PLACENTA; PLACENTA BIOPSY; PREECLAMPSIA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 45749097896     PISSN: 13000144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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