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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-3-26
pubmed:abstractText
Recent reports describe the antenatal sonographic diagnosis of placenta accreta based on failure to visualize a hypoechoic zone at the placental margin. This finding was confirmed in our series of seven cases. New observations in this series include prominent large or multiple placental venous lakes and periuterine vascularity in six of seven cases, and progressive thinning and disappearance of the retroplacental hypoechoic zone on sequential examinations in two of seven cases. Loss of normal venous flow pattern on Doppler interrogation of the peripheral placental margin also appeared to be of value in two patients. Histologic correlates for these findings are suggested on the basis of the primary histopathologic feature of placenta accreta: deficiency of the decidua basalis. Differential diagnostic considerations, including abdominal pregnancy and trophoblastic disease, also are discussed.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0278-4297
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
29-34
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Placenta accreta. Additional sonographic observations.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Radiology (Division of Ultrasound), Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, New York.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article