Turkish Journal of Pathology

Türk Patoloji Dergisi

Turkish Journal of Pathology

Ankara Patoloji Bülteni Archive

2001, Vol 18, Num, 1     (Pages: 027-030)

The pathology of the placenta and clinicopathological correlation (190 Cases)

Fazilet Kayaselçuk1, Melek Ergin1, Nurdan Tunalı1, Ediz F. Çoşar1, F. Tuncay Özgönen2

1Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Patoloji Ana Bilim Dalı, Adana
2Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Kadın Hastalıkları ve Doğum Ana Bilim Dalı, Adana


Parallel to the development in the fetal medicine and the prenatal diagnostic methods, the number of autopsies for stillbirths and neonatal deaths gradually increases. The pathological examination of the placenta is a complementary component for perinatal autopsy which can not be given up. Systemic diseases of mother that occurs before or during pregnancy cause various pathologies or make them more severe. In this study, the pathologies determined from the 190 placenta supplied from the Perinatal Research and Application Center of our faculty are presented. Of the 190 placenta examinated 48 inflamatuar case (25.6 %), 40 multifocal infarct (21%), 40 inter and perivillous fibrin deposition (21 %), 133 multifocal calcification (70 %), 21 increased syncytial knots (11 %), 18 umblical cord pathology (9.47 %), 4 chorangiomas (2.1 %), one basal plate hematoma (0.52 %), one placentomegaly (0.52 %) were identified. No pathology was determined in the remaining 21 (11.5 %) placentas. The pathological findings identified from placenta were correlated with the history of the mother and the fetus. Some of the pathologies determined in the placenta were noticed to be increased in diseases such as hypertension, eclampsy, diabetes mellitus of mothers and the autopsied fetus.

Keywords : Plasenta, patoloji