The placenta in intrauterine demise

Theonia K Boyd1

  • 1Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Placental changes in intrauterine demise can be similar to antemortem pathologic processes. This chapter provides an overview of postmortem placental changes, and provides an algorithmic set of considerations for discriminating between ante- and postmortem pathology.