Title: Histological evaluation of the presence of maternal red blood cells in the intervillous space and plugged spiral arteries in early human pregnany
Abstract: A series of 5 previllous and 2 villous normal human ova, ranging from 7.5 to 16.5 days in developmental age, shows that the human blastocyst implants on the posterior wall, probably during the late sixth or nearly seventh day of its development, on endometrium that may range from the eighteenth to the twenty-third day of its development. Actually there are no precise data on the time of implantation, since the youngest specimen, and therefore the most critical one with respect to this process, is already implanted. The figures given (late sixth or early seventh day) are deduced on the basis of this youngest specimen. Even younger ova must be secured in order to determine the actual time of implantation.Trophoblast proliferates at the site of implantation which, at first, consists of solid cyto- and syncytiotrophoblast. The latter becomes vacuolated on the eighth day to develop lacunae for the reception of maternal blood on about the eleventh day. The chorionic villi begin to form as cytotrophoblastic masses on the twelfth to thirteenth day and grow peripherally along the syncytiotrophoblastic framework, ultimately coalescing peripherally to displace the syncytiotrophoblast, except the portion lining the intervillous space. Remnants of the desquamated syncytiotrophoblast are encountered in the placental site as giant cells.A series of 5 abnormal previllous ova, the developmental ages of which range from approximately the eleventh to the fourteenth day, but which are difficult to interpret accurately because of their abnormality, shows a variety of conditions ranging from shallow implantation of an otherwise normal ovum, through extreme hypoplasia of the trophoblast, to complete absence of the embryonic mass. The pathologic ova were all found on the anterior wall of the uterus.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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