Placental and Perinatal Pathology — Special Pathology 2026

Special Pathology · Basic Sciences

How it begins

An organ with three simultaneous stories: mother, fetus and placenta. Systematic method for malperfusion, infection, chronic inflammation, adhesion disorders, trophoblastic disease and causes of loss.

What it covers

1. When and why to examine a placenta
2. Normal maturation and variation
3. Reproducible gross examination
4. Maternal vascular malperfusion
5. Fetal vascular malperfusion
6. · Fetal malperfusion pattern
7. Ascending and hematogenous route
8. Vellositis, deciduitis e intervellositis
9. Placenta accreta and abruption
10. Mole, neoplasia and p57
11. Integrated perinatal autopsy
12. A useful placental report
13. · Structure
14. Master references