Section 1. Background.- Chapter 1. Introduction. An approach to placental pathology.- Chapter 2. Placental Development with Expected Normal Gross and Microscopic Findings.- Chapter 3.
Indications for examining the placenta.- Section 2. Gross examination.- Chapter 4. Gross examination.- Chapter 5. Placental Weight, Shape, and Gross Vascular Morphology.- Section 3.
Placental disc: Macroscopically Visible Lesions.- Chapter 6. Infarction.- Chapter 7. Intervillous thrombosis.- Chapter 8. Massive perivillous fibrin deposition, maternal floor infarct.- Chapter 9.
Retroplacental haemorrhage, marginal haemorrhage.- Chapter 10. Fetal Vascular Thrombosis.- Chapter 11. Extravillous trophoblast cyst.- Section 4. Placental disc: Microscopic Lesions.- Chapter 12.
Acute Chorioamnionitis.- Chapter 13. Chorionic plate chronic inflammatory lesions including eosinophilic/T-cell chorionic vasculitis.- Chapter 14. Maturity anomalies.- Chapter 15. Distal villous hypoplasia.- Chapter 16.
Placental mesenchymal dysplasia.- Chapter 17. Increased syncytial knot formation.- Chapter 18. Persistence of cytotrophoblast.- Chapter 19. Mineralization of trophoblast basement membrane.- Chapter 20.
Trophoblast and stroma: vacuolation - inherited disorder of metabolism.- Chapter 21. Villous oedema.- Chapter 22. Extramedullary haemopoiesis.- Chapter 23. Intravillous haemorrhage.- Chapter 24.
Hypervascularity.- Chapter 25. Fetal vascular malperfusion.- Chapter 26. Presence of nucleated red blood cells.- Chapter 27. Fetal vessels: malignancy.- Chapter 28.
Acute villitis.- Chapter 29. Chronic villitis.- Chapter 30. Chronic histiocytic intervillositis.- Chapter 31. Intervillous space: infiltrates.- Chapter 32.
Pregnancy-induced uterine vascular remodelling and the pathophysiology of decidual vasculopathy.- Chapter 33. Chronic deciduitis.- Chapter 34. Basal plate myometrial fibres.- Chapter 35. Basal plate laminar necrosis.- Chapter 36.
Retroplacental Haematoma/Haemorrhage (RPH).-Chapter 37. Miscellaneous Lesions of the Villous Parenchyma.- Section 5. Amniochorial membranes: Macroscopically Visible Lesions.- Chapter 38. Amniochorial membrane nodules.- Chapter 39.
Placental changes in amniotic band sequence, extra-amniotic and extramembranous pregnancy.- Section 6. Amniochorial membranes: Microscopic Lesions.- Chapter 40. Amnion Transport: Histologic Features.- Chapter 41. Choriodecidual haemosiderin staining.- Chapter 42.
Laminar necrosis; membrane chorionic microcysts and chorion nodosum.- Chapter 43. Decidual Vasculopathy .- Chapter 44. Acute inflammation.- Chapter 45. Chronic inflammation.- Section 7.
Umbilical cord.- Chapter 46. Umbilical Cord Length.- Chapter 47. Umbilical Cord coiling.- Chapter 48. Cord knots and pseudo-knots.- Chapter 49.
Umbilical cord tumours.- Chapter 50. Umbilical Cord Insertion abnormalities.- Chapter 51. Embryonic remnants and pathology.- Chapter 52. Single Umbilical Artery, Supernumerary Vessels, Segmental Thinningof the Umbilical Cord Vessels and Vascular calcifications in umbilical vessels.- Chapter 53.
Umbilical cord ulcer.- Chapter 54. Umbilical vascular myonecrosis.- Chapter 55. Inflammation.- Section 8. Clinical correlation, reporting and frontiers.- Chapter 56.
Constellations of Pathology in the Placenta and How They Relate to Clinical Conditions.- Chapter 57. The Placental Pathology Report.- Chapter 58. Frontiers.