PLACENTAL APPEARANCE IN CHROMOSOMAL ANOMALIES

 

 

Triploidy

Partial mole.

Trisomy 13

Small placenta.
Single umbilical artery.
Dysmature and hypovascular villi.

Trisomy 18

Syncytial knots.
Villous cellularity.
Cisternae in villi.
High resistance to flow.

Trisomy 21

Villous dysmaturity.
Hypovascularity.