Chorangioma with Chorangiosis, placenta: a rare entity of clinical significance

  • Swati Singla vmmc and safdarjung hospital
  • Ankit Kaushik vmmc and safdarjung hospital
  • Charanjeet Alhuwalia vmmc and safdarjung hospital
  • Gaurav Singla vmmc and safdarjung hospital
  • Ashish Kumar Mandal vmmc and safdarjung hospital
Keywords: chorangioma, placenta, chorangiosis.

Abstract

Placental chorangiomas are benign vascular tumours of placenta arising from chorionic tissue with an average incidence of 0.5-1%. Hypertension and diabetes are found more often in combination with chorangimas than they are in otherwise normal pregnancies. It is often associated with adverse clinical outcome like preeclampsia, IUD.Chorangiosis is characterized by an increase in number of small sized vascular channel with in chorionic villi. Chorangiosis is considered as hypoxia related angiogenesis mainly associated with numerous maternal, foetal and placental disorders.Though both of the conditions have been described separately in literature we present a case with both these conditions

Author Biographies

Swati Singla, vmmc and safdarjung hospital
pathology, resident , m.d pathology
Ankit Kaushik, vmmc and safdarjung hospital
pathology,senior resident, m.d pathology
Charanjeet Alhuwalia, vmmc and safdarjung hospital
pathology,specialist and assistant professor
Gaurav Singla, vmmc and safdarjung hospital
resident, department of pathology
Ashish Kumar Mandal, vmmc and safdarjung hospital
pathology, director, professor and head

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Published
2016-08-04
Section
Case Report