Evaluation of Pulmonary Hypoplasia in Various Congenital Anomalies with a Comparison of Two Conventional Methods of Assessment: Radial Alveolar Count (RAC) and Lung Weight: Body Weight Ratio (LBW)

• Main Authors: Deepu Mathew CHERIAN (Author), C. N. Sai SHALINI (Author), Chitra ANDREWS (Author), Uma MAHESWARI (Author), Prathiba D (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Federation of Turkish Pathology Societies, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Pulmonary hypoplasia is common in the perinatal period and causes death in newborn infants. It is commonly associated with a number of malformation syndromes. Various parameters are used to estimate pulmonary hypoplasia at fetal autopsy including Lung Weight Body Weight ratio (LW:BW), Rad...