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Pathological Case of the Month
Halit Pinar, MD;
Edgar Sotomayor, MD;
Don B. Singer, MD
From the Developmental Pathology Program and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (Drs Pinar and Singer), Department of Pediatrics (Dr Pinar) and Brown University Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Residency Program (Dr Sotomayor), Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:199-200.
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THE INFANT pictured in Figure 1 was a 415-g female born at 22 weeks' gestational age to a 17-year-old gravida 2, para 1 mother. The mother's previous pregnancy produced a healthy child. This pregnancy was complicated by a foul-smelling vaginal discharge and abdominal cramps 2 days prior to admission to the hospital. At admission she had a high leukocyte count and fever. After amniocentesis, she was delivered of this female infant, who lived for 8 hours. The placenta weighed 193 g and had necrotizing acute chorioamnionitis (Figure 2 and Figure 3). All 3 umbilical vessels had vasculitis and funisitis. Airspaces were filled with polymorphonuclear leukocytes (Figure 4). Amniotic fluid and postmortem cultures grew Haemophilus influenzae biotype 1.
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Diagnosis and Discussion: Turquoise Discoloration of the Umbilical Cord and Membranes After Intra-amniotic Injection of Indigo Carmine Dye for Premature Rupture of Membranes
Figure 1. Turquoise discoloration of the umbilical cord.
Figure 2. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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