Partial molar pregnancy with a chromosomically and phenotypically normal embryo: Presentation of an extremely rare case and review of literature

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1289-1293

  Papoutsis, Dimitrios ^a   Mesogitis, Spiridon ^a   Antonakou, Angeliki ^a   Goumalatsos, Nikolaos ^a   Daskalakis, Georgios ^a   Papantoniou, Nikolaos ^a   Papaspyrou, Irini ^b   Zirganos, Nikolaos ^b   Antsaklis, Aris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Partial molar pregnancy; placental mesenchymal dysplasia; placental mosaicism

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRIOL;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS MOVEMENT; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; LABOR INDUCTION; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PARTIAL MOLAR PREGNANCY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD;

EID: 80053036964     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2011.561892     Document Type: Review

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