The size of chorionic villi in the placenta of diabetics
Emmrich, P.; Müller, G.
Zentralblatt für Allgemeine Pathologie U. Pathologische Anatomie 118(6): 504-509
1974
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4030 PMID: 4466213 Document Number: 74082
25 placentas in maternal diabetes and 25 placentas from normal pregnancies (39- 41 th week) were investigated by histoplanimetry. In each placenta we have measured in 2 areas out of the center and the periphery the plain of villi. The total sum of villi measured comes to 10302. The investigation has shown, in the average the plain of villi in diabetic placentas is higher than in normal placentas significantly. Besides, the number of small villi decreases and the number of villi with a plain over the average rises in cases of diabetes nellitus. These differences in the distribution of the chorionic ville in some classes of size between placentas of diabetic and such of normal pregnancies are significantly too.