From 1983 through 1987, in a California population of 718,208 births, 237 infants were born
with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a birth prevalence of 3.30 per 10,000 total …

The placental syncytiotrophoblast (ST) is a terminally differentiated epithelial cell monolayer
that constitutes the outermost boundary between fetal and maternal tissues and performs a …

We describe a female infant with apparent Poland anomaly (PA) and limb body wall defect.
Analysis of the defects suggest that a disruption of the lateral embryonic plate mesoderm …

Purpose: To analyze the impact of pathology review in gynecologic malignancies. Methods
and Materials: For all new gynecologic patients seen between December 2, 1993 and …

Of the 5 liveborn infants with the hernia of Morgagni recorded in the California Birth Defects
Monitoring Program, 3 had trisomy 21. This significant association (P < 10 −6 ) between the …

A systematic gross and microscopic study of the placenta was done on human spontaneous
abortions, correlating placental morphology and karyotype of the conceptus. Consistent …

Endometrial biopsy specimens were obtained from 107 normally menstruating infertile
women 2 to 3 days before the anticipated onset of menses and were day-dated according to …

Salpingitis isthmica nodosa has been studied in relation to female infertility and tubal ectopic
pregnancy. The incidence of this lesion in a control Caucasian population was 0.6%, as …

A histologic study of ageing testes, removed surgically from ‘healthy’ men aged 52–100
years, is presented. The age-related changes noted were: tubular sclerosis, Leydig cell …

• Thirty-one adolescent females, aged 14 to 20 years, underwent cholecystectomy for
pathologically documented cholesterol gallstones. A retrospective study, using the Mantel-Haenzel …