02 | January | 2011 | Academic OB/GYN

Academic OB/GYN Cases: The House of Twins

January 2, 2011 Nicholas Fogelson 5 comments

This is a nice photo of a diamniotic/dichorionic placenta, part of a pregnancy involving two separate embryos in the same uterus.

Note the thick intervening membrane and lack of blood vessels traveling between the two placental discs, both characteristic of a di/di placenta.

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