Deep placentation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-285

  Pijnenborg, R ^a   Vercruysse, L ^a   Brosens, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEUVEN INSTITUTE FOR FERTILITY AND EMBRYOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

decidua; junctional zone myometrium; placental bed; pre eclampsia; spiral arteries; trophoblast invasion; vascular remodelling

Indexed keywords

CELL INVASION; DECIDUALIZATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL BLOOD; MYOMETRIUM; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; DECIDUA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PRIMATES; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 79955804743     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2010.10.009     Document Type: Review

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