Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Diagnostic and Molecular Genetic Pathology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hui, Pei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Current Clinical Pathology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.

In this volume Dr Hui has brought together a comprehensive overview of gestational trophoblastic disease that includes all the currently recognized entities: complete and partial hydatidiform moles, placental site trophoblastic tumor, epithelioid trophoblastic tumor, gestational choriocarcinoma, per...

Table of Contents:

• Forward
• Preface and Dedication.- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease: General Aspects
• Developmental Biology of the Placenta
• Genetic Basis of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
• Complete hydatidiform mole.- Partial hydatidiform mole
• Placental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT)
• Epithelioid trophoblastic tumor.-Gestational choriocarcinoma
• Persistent gestational trophoblastic neoplasia
• Tumor-like trophoblastic conditions
• Molecular Diagnosis of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
• Clinical aspects of gestational trophoblastic disease
• Appendix.