Gross umbilical cord complications are associated with placental lesions of circulatory stasis and fetal hypoxia

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 487-494

  Chan, Joanna S Y ^a   Baergen, Rebecca N ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal death; Fetal hypoxia; Placenta; Placental circulation; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CHORIONIC PLATE VESSEL DISTENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; EXCESSIVELY LONG UMBILICAL CORD; FETAL VASCULAR THROMBOSIS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARGINAL UMBILICAL CORD INSERTION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRUE KNOT; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; UMBILICAL CORD ENTANGLEMENT; UMBILICAL VESSEL DISTENSION; UMBILICAL VESSEL THROMBOSIS; VELAMENTOUS INSERTION; VILLOUS CAPILLARY CONGESTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTA DISEASES; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; THROMBOSIS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84873031810     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/12-06-1211-OA.1     Document Type: Article

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