Table of Contents

Preface; Foreword; 1. Perinatal autopsy, techniques and classifications Mudher Al-Adnani; 2. Placental examination Beverly Rogers and Carlos Abramowsky; 3. The fetus at less than 15 weeks gestation L. Cesar Peres and Christina Vogt; 4. Stillbirth and intrauterine growth restriction Adrian Charles and Yee Khong; 5. Hydrops fetalis Geoffrey A. Machin; 6. Pathology of twinning and higher multiple pregnancy Phil Cox; 7. Is this a syndrome? Patterns in genetic conditions Meena Balasubramanian; 8. The metabolic disease autopsy Kevin Bove and Simon Olpin; 9. The abnormal heart Glenn P. Taylor, Mary N. Sheppard and S. Yen Ho; 10. Central nervous system Waney Squier and Férechté Encha-Razavi; 11. Significant congenital abnormalities of the respiratory, digestive, and renal systems Linda R. Margraf, Ana M. Gomez and Carlos A. Galliani; 12. Skeletal dysplasias Jo Wyatt-Ashmead, Tania Konstantinidou and Amaka Offiah; 13. Congenital tumors Sarangarajan Ranganathan; 14. Complications of prematurity Stephen Gould and Nicholas Smith; 15. Intrapartum and neonatal death Irene Scheimberg, Susan Arbuckle and Samantha Holden; 16. Sudden unexplained death in infancy (SUDI) Chitraleka Sethuraman, Robert Coombs and Marta C. Cohen; 17. Infections and malnutrition Ronald O. C. Kaschula and Helen C. Wainwright; 18. Role of MRI and radiology in post-mortems Alan Sprigg and Elspeth H. Whitby; 19. The forensic postmortem Janice Ophoven; 20. Appendix tables Irene Scheimberg, L. Cesar Peres and Marta C. Cohen; Index.

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Practical yet comprehensive bench manual guiding the pathologist through situations they might encounter in a pediatric or perinatal post-mortem.

About the Author

Marta C. Cohen is Consultant Paediatric and Perinatal Histopathologist at Sheffield Children's Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK. Irene Scheimberg is Consultant Paediatric and Perinatal Pathologist at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Barts Medical School, Queen Mary University, London, UK.

Reviews

'The volume reflects great editorial care in its organization and composition … a superb manual for the perinatal and pediatric autopsy.' Pediatric and Developmental Pathology