Keeling’s Fetal and Neonatal Pathology

This sixth edition provides an overview of fetal and neonatal pathology through a system-based approach. This book contains new chapters on immunology, with a continued focus on molecular aspects of pathology in the perinatal setting. The general principles of perinatal pathology and their clinical situations are also discussed, along with specific pathological entities and their organ systems.Keeling¿s Fetal and Neonatal Pathology, sixth edition aims to help the reader treat common problems through anatomical pathology findings and is relevant to practicing and trainee pathologists, obstetricians, maternal and fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists, and pediatricians.

Cross-references between chapters to give an understanding of interconnected organ systems

1. The Perinatal Postmortem from a Clinician's Viewpoint.- 2. The Perinatal Necropsy.- 3. Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Development and Disease.- 4. The Placenta and Umbilical Cord.- 5. Perinatal Imaging.- 6. Epidemiology of Fetal and Neonatal Death.- 7. Pathology of Early Pregnancy Loss.- 8. Congenital Abnormalities: Prenatal Diagnosis and Screening.- 9. The Impact of Infection During Pregnancy on the Mother and Baby.- 10. Perinatal Hematology.- 11. Genetic Metabolic Disease.- 12. Fetal Hydrops.- 13. Pathology of Twinning.- 14. Macerated Stillbirth.- 15. Intrapartum Problems.- 16. Prematurity.- 17. Iatrogenic Disease.- 18. Congenital Tumors.- 19. The Cardiovascular System.- 20. The Respiratory System.- 21. The Alimentary Tract and Exocrine Pancreas.- 22. Liver and Gallbladder.- 23. The Urinary System.- 24. The Reproductive System.- 25. The Endocrine System.- 26. The Reticuloendothelial System.- 27. Brain Malformations.- 28. Degenerative and Metabolic Brain Diseases.- 29. Acquired Diseases of the Nervous System.- 30. Skeletal Muscle and Peripheral Nerves.- 31. The Skeletal System.- 32. The Skin.- 33. The Special Senses.- 34. Forensic Aspects of Perinatal Pathology.- 35. General pathology.- 36. Pathology in different organ systems.- 37. Immunology.