Interest in the placenta has not waned in the 12 years since the
publication
of the first edition, and an increasing number of excellent articles
and texts are available. While many gross placental abnormalities are
included in these references, the need still exists for an illustrated manual
of examination.
The material in this book comes completely from my experience in
grossly examining virtually all placentas from deliveries at University
Hospital in Stony Brook. Since the hospital’s opening 25 years ago, there
has been marked increase in both high risk and more routine deliveries
with an annual total near 4,500.
An appreciation of the spectrum of normal is necessary for the
evaluation of abnormal placentas. In this edition, the discrimination of
normal variation in the gross placental morphology from the possibly or
definitely abnormal will be covered more fully than in the first edition.
While many of the original illustrations are still included, there are many
new and additional gross photographs.
The move to digital imagery over film has also occurred in the years
between editions. Pictures from the first edition and other 2 ? 2 slides
have been converted to this format. New images were photgraphed
digitally at 4 or 5 megapixels.
Kaplan_C.G. _Color_Atlas_of_Gross_Placental_Pathology_(2ed., _Springer,2007)(ISBN_0387338438)(139s)
© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
of the first edition, and an increasing number of excellent articles
and texts are available. While many gross placental abnormalities are
included in these references, the need still exists for an illustrated manual
of examination.
The material in this book comes completely from my experience in
grossly examining virtually all placentas from deliveries at University
Hospital in Stony Brook. Since the hospital’s opening 25 years ago, there
has been marked increase in both high risk and more routine deliveries
with an annual total near 4,500.
An appreciation of the spectrum of normal is necessary for the
evaluation of abnormal placentas. In this edition, the discrimination of
normal variation in the gross placental morphology from the possibly or
definitely abnormal will be covered more fully than in the first edition.
While many of the original illustrations are still included, there are many
new and additional gross photographs.
The move to digital imagery over film has also occurred in the years
between editions. Pictures from the first edition and other 2 ? 2 slides
have been converted to this format. New images were photgraphed
digitally at 4 or 5 megapixels.
Kaplan_C.G. _Color_Atlas_of_Gross_Placental_Pathology_(2ed., _Springer,2007)(ISBN_0387338438)(139s)
© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.