Placental and Gestational Pathology Hardback with Online Resource (Diagnostic Pediatric Pathology)

This concise and comprehensive resource is vital for the pathologist faced with providing accurate, timely, and clinically useful diagnoses for placentas, products of conception, and gravid hysterectomies. Combining the pathologic, research, and clinical expertise of a diverse group of editors and authors from centers of excellence for placental pathology, this book enables easy application of the latest Amsterdam international consensus classification criteria, with cross-references to previous terminology and a pathophysiology-based classification system. It provides complete descriptions and illustrations of diagnostic gross, microscopic, and immunohistochemical findings together with a thorough discussion of potential pitfalls and differential diagnosis. Current theories of the genetic and physiologic basis for disease processes, culminating in placental lesions are discussed. The book features high-quality images and standardized measurement tables to assist real-time diagnoses and provides access to an online version on Cambridge Core, which can be accessed via the code printed on the inside of the cover.

A guide to identifying disease processes in the placenta affecting pregnancy outcome, with current diagnostic criteria and clinical consequences.

Raymond W. Redline is Professor of Pathology and Reproductive Biology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where he currently directs the Pediatric, Perinatal, and Gynecologic Pathology sections. He has served for 32 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, and chaired the Society for Pediatric Pathology Placenta Nosology Project.

Theonia K. Boyd is Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of Anatomic Pathology at Boston Children's Hospital, and a staff member of the Division of Women's and Perinatal Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She served on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and then Harvard Medical School, Boston, for a total of 22 years.

Drucilla J. Roberts is Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She previously held a fellowship in Women's and Perinatal Pathology and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Along with Dr Boyd, she is co-Director of a CME course on Placental Pathology.