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Placenta Teratoma or Acardiac Fetus Amorphous: A Case Study by DNA Genotyping.
International journal of gynecological pathology : official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists - 1 Jan 2022
McHenry Austin, Morotti Raffaella, Hui Pei
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To date, 40 cases of placental teratoma and 21 cases of umbilical cord teratoma have been reported in the literature. Such entities are purportedly described as originating from ectopically derived totipotential germ cells forming 1 or more of 3 germ layers, similar to teratomas arising in other sites. These entities have been described as distinct from acardiac twins based on the absence of both an axial...
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