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placental microscopical anomalies

Sunday 23 January 2022

- placental infarcts / placental infarction

  • early infarction / early infarcts
  • microscopic infarction

- retroplacental hemorrhage
- intravillous hemorrhage
- distal villous hypoplasia (DVH)
- accelerated villous maturation
- decidual arteriopathy
- increased islands of fibrinoid with extravillous trophoblast (so-called X cells)
- placental pseudocyst
- chorion laeve pseudocyst (
- membranous decidual necrosis