Third-trimester stillbirths: Correlative neuropathology and placental pathology

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 345-352

  Chang, Kenneth T E ^a   Keating, Sarah ^b   Costa, Stacy ^c   Machin, Geoffrey ^d   Kingdom, John ^b   Shannon, Patrick ^b  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d 433931 Cherriless Cres ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

3rd trimester; Neuropathology; Placental pathology; Still birth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CASE STUDY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOMALACIA; MECONIUM; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THYMUS; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 79960921654     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/10-07-0882-OA.1     Document Type: Article

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