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Androgenetic complete mole with trisomy 13: report of a case with microsatellite genotyping and review of the literature.
Pathology, research and practice - 15 Nov 2010
Dubé V, Chun K, Osborne R, Sherman C, Nofech-Mozes S, Ismiil N, Saad R S, Khalifa M A
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Hydatidiform moles are gestational diseases with abnormal development of the villous trophoblast and characterized by an excess of paternal to maternal genetic material. Complete moles are usually diploid and androgenetic, and are thought to develop after the fertilization of an "empty ovum" by either a haploid spermatozoon or two spermatozoa. We report a case of a complete mole in which fluorescence in situ...
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