General and Systemic Histopathology, C601&C602
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This is tissue from
a spontaneous, first trimester abortion. Three is a lot of inflammation
and necrosis within the fragments of decidua. Look in the blood clot
for the chorionic villi. You will not find them in the pink staining
decidualized endometrium. See this slide with the virtual microscope. |
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The chorionic villi are few and far between. This specimen is mostly blood clot but that's the way these specimens are. The villi should be small and fairly regular in shape and surfaced with both syncytiotrophoblasts and cytotrophoblasts. There will be lots of inflammation and necrotic debris. This is a spontaneous abortion and I do not know why the pregnancy was lost. |