Gurram D, Sung Joung SJ, Ryder L, Nayyar R. Late diagnosis of
hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma and placental mesenchymal dysplasia.
Australas J Ultrasound Med 2016;
19:123-125. [PMID:
34760455 DOI:
10.1002/ajum.12021]
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Abstract
Placental mesenchymal dysplasia (PMD) is a rare condition characterised by placental enlargement, oedematous villi and multiple anechoic cysts. Hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma (HMH) is a benign proliferation of mesenchymal tissue, commonly seen in infants below the age of 2. We report the case of a 28 years old female who was noted to have a fetus with a well-circumscribed cyst on the liver, suggestive of HMH and a large, thickened placenta, with multiple anechoic cysts, consistent with PMD during the third trimester. There were no other structural abnormalities and at 38 weeks she underwent an induction of labour with normal vaginal delivery of a live female infant. While the aetiology is poorly understood, the increased incidence of HMH with PMD and the morphological similarities of the changes seen in both the placenta and liver, suggests a possible common developmental mechanism. There are only 12 other cases of this concurrent pathology in the literature and only one of these had resulted in a term delivery, and ours is the second one to date.
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