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CPM Certified Professional Midwife

Category - Prenatal

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The placenta is an organ located in the gravid uterus that connects the mother and fetus via the umbilical cord. Of the following, which is considered a placental anomaly?
  1. Placenta spuria
  2. Placenta previa
  3. Velamentous placenta
  4. All of the above
Explanation
Answer: D - All of the above

Placenta spuria is a mass of placental tissue that has no vascular connection with the main placenta. Placenta previa occurs when the baby’s placenta partially or totally covers the opening in the pregnant woman’s cervix. In velamentous placenta, the umbilical cord inserts into the choriamniotic membranes instead of the middle of the developing placenta.
The following are placenta abnormalities:
1) Placenta succenturia
2) Placenta spuria
3) Battledore placenta
4)Velamentous placenta
5) Placenta previa
6) Placenta accreta
7) Placenta increta
8) Placenta percreta
9) Placenta membranacea
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