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SERIAL HUMAN PLACENTAL LACTOGEN ESTIMATIONS IN SERUM AND PLACENTAL WEIGHT-FOR-DATES
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1975.tb00595.x
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1471-0528/asset/cover.gif?v=1&s=b4e1d96c46e18c61210d584b63c13ee375cf562b "BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology")
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 82, Issue 11, pages 899–902, November 1975
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Stroobants, W. L. A., Van Zanten, A. K., De Bruijn, H. W. A., Van Doorm, J. M. and Huisjes, H. J. (1975), SERIAL HUMAN PLACENTAL LACTOGEN ESTIMATIONS IN SERUM AND PLACENTAL WEIGHT-FOR-DATES. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 82: 899–902. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1975.tb00595.x
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Summary
The relation between serial HPL assays in serum and placental weight-for-dates was studied in 70 randomly chosen pregnant women. Out of five different aspects of the HPL curve only a fall below the 2 3d centile without subsequent recovery was related to low placental weight. When a small-for-dates (SFD) placenta was associated with normal HPL levels, maternal body weight tended to be lower than if both placental weight and HPL levels were abnormal. This suggests that physiologically small placentae are discernible from pathologically small placentae by a normal HPL curve.