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"The Placenta:
To Know Me Is To Love Me.
A reference
guide for gross placental examination."
with Companion Atlas CD
Windows version
only
text written by Doris
Schuler-Maloney MS and Steve Lee MD with illustrations by Marty Boesenberg,
192 pages, 1998 printing
CD created by Doris
Schuler-Maloney MS, includes 400 color placental images
ISBN 0-9670354--1-4
©
2004 DSM PathWorks, Inc.
 | "The Placenta: To Know Me Is To Love
Me. A reference guide for gross placental examination" cuts across medical disciplines bringing together obstetrics and
pathology for the common goal of gross placental examination. It was written for all
health care professionals who grossly examine the placenta, including Obstetricians,
Family Practice Physicians, Pathologists, Resident Physicians, delivery room Nurses,
Nurse-Midwives, Physicians Assistants and Pathologists' Assistants. The chapters are
succinctly written and quick to read, making it the perfect, daily reference for the busy
birthing room and Surgical pathology gross room. |
| "The
Placenta: To Know Me Is To Love Me Companion Atlas CD"
compliments the reference guide and features 400 color
placental images in a Web Presentation. The CD was created using
PowerPoint 2000 (not required to view CD), to run off your Windows based
internet browser. Limited copyright permission is extended to the
buyer, allowing use of the images in personal educational presentations that
will not be sold, widely distributed or placed on the internet.
Images are sorted by placental structure, cross indexed by anatomic
and pathologic features, and accessed by hyperlinks. Salient placental features
are identified and annotated. The images highlight normal
characteristics, and common as well as uncommon placental pathology,
including rarely seen specimens such as:
 | Breus' mole |
| fetal surface
stem vessel thrombosis with avascular villi |
| IUD in
extraplacental membranes of term placenta |
| ruptured vasa
previa |
| furcate
insertion of umbilical cord |
| maternal floor
infarction |
| 5-6 week
gestation intact amniotic sac with embryo and yolk sac, within chorionic
sac |
| amniotic band
syndrome with anencephaly |
| hysterectomy
specimen with choriocarcinoma |
| extensive
entanglement of monoamniotic monochorionic cords in triplet placenta |
| acardiac fetus |
| diamniotic
dichorionic twin placenta including complete molar transformation of one
placenta |
| spontaneous
triamniotic monochorionic triplet placenta |
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| Section
I: Clinicopathological Correlation is the "driving force" of the
reference guide,
supplemented by pathological details in
Section
II and clinical details in
Section
III, with a review of the legal impact of the placenta in
Section IV. The user friendly
table of contents and index
provide quick and easy access to desired information, cross referenced through-out all
sections of the guide. "The Placenta: To Know Me Is To Love Me"
is a reference guide, a "bench companion" to more detailed obstetric and
pathology textbooks. |
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| Detailed Table of Contents |
| List of common Abbreviations |
| List of Tables (23 clinical and
pathological) |
| List of Figures (41 schematics,
illustrations and photomicrographs) |
| Section I. Clinicopathological Correlation
(42 pages). Correlations based upon indications for placental examination. Each Indication
section includes: Definition, Clinical Association, Possible Placental Gross Features,
Summary of Microscopic Features, Etiology, Significance: |
| Chapter 1:
Placental Indications |
| Chapter 2:
Maternal Indications |
| Chapter 3:
Fetal Indications |
| Section II. Placental Pathology (68
pages). Systematic approach to gross placental examination, including review of normal and
abnormal gross features: |
| Chapter 4:
Development |
| Chapter 5:
Considerations of Examination |
| Chapter 6:
Gross Examination |
| Chapter 7:
Umbilical Cord |
| Chapter 8:
Extraplacental Membranes and Fetal Surface |
| Chapter 9:
Maternal Surface (Basal Plate) |
| Chapter 10:
Parenchyma |
| Chapter 11:
Multifetal Gestations |
| Chapter 12:
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease |
| Section III. Clinical Definitions (41
pages). Brief description of over 125 commonly encountered clinical terms and procedures: |
| Chapter 13:
Clinical Definitions |
| Section IV. Legal Implications (6
pages). Review of importance of placental examination, in the litigation process
for neurologically impaired children: |
| Chapter 14:
Legal Implications |
| Index (11 pages). |
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