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Fig. 8. Decidual cast containing remnants of conceptus

No. 698. X 1.

No. 698

(1) N. E. B. Iglehart, Baltimore, Maryland.

(2) A 50X20X13 mm. Decidual cast with some syncytium and trophoblast.

(3) Patient 38 years of age, mother of three children, this being her first abortion. Last period April 11 to 14; abortion June 6. No history of infection.

(4) The specimen looks like a solid irregular mole and measures 50X20X13 mm. On sectioning, it is found filled with blood, with a space between the inner wall and the decidua.

(5) Transverse sections of the same suggest that it is composed entirely of decidua and clot. What appears to be the chorionic wall is the decidua capsularis, the interior of which is filled entirely with blood. Between the slight traces of the chorionic wall and the blood-clot containing them a few small masses of syncytium and trophoblast are found. The ovum apparently has been destroyed almost entirely, so that the sections remind one very much of the type of pregnancy found in the uterine tube.

(6) Marked infiltration.

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Mall FP. and Meyer AW. Studies on abortuses: a survey of pathologic ova in the Carnegie Embryological Collection. (1921) Contrib. Embryol., Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 275, 12: 1-364.

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1921 Carnegie Collection - Abnormal: Preface | 1 Collection origin | 2 Care and utilization | 3 Classification | 4 Pathologic analysis | 5 Size | 6 Sex incidence | 7 Localized anomalies | 8 Hydatiform uterine | 9 Hydatiform tubal | Chapter 10 Alleged superfetation | 11 Ovarian Pregnancy | 12 Lysis and resorption | 13 Postmortem intrauterine | 14 Hofbauer cells | 15 Villi | 16 Villous nodules | 17 Syphilitic changes | 18 Aspects | Bibliography | Figures | Contribution No.56 | Contributions Series | Embryology History

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