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Antenatal Detection of Placental Pathology by Ultrasound
Author(s) -
Chandra M.,
Duff G.B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1982.tb00560.x
Subject(s) - calcification , medicine , placenta , ultrasound , fibrin , fetus , pathology , obstetrics , gross examination , intervillous space , pregnancy , placental circulation , radiology , biology , immunology , genetics
Thirty‐seven patients who had anterior placentae were scanned within one week of delivery. The ultrasonic appearances of the placentae were correlated with the radiological, gross and histological appearances of the placentae after delivery. Calcification, perivillous fibrin deposition and subchorionic fibrin, ischaemic villous necrosis, intervillous thrombus, septal cysts, avillous spaces and placental septae with calcification or fibrin deposition were all able to be identified by ultrasound examination. The most obvious placental changes on ultrasound examination are those of calcification and perivillous and subchorionic fibrin deposition and are clinically the least significant. Because of the inaccuracies in detecting significant placental pathology such as ischaemic villous necrosis by ultrasound routine antenatal examination of the placenta cannot be recommended. There was no correlation between changes observed by ultrasound examination and fetal problems in this study.