Prenatal laser treatment of a placental chorioangioma

Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Mar;25(3):299-301. doi: 10.1002/uog.1848.

Abstract

Large placental chorioangiomas are rare complications in pregnancy. We present a case of a placental chorioangioma, complicated by polyhydramnios, in which obliteration of its blood supply using diode laser coagulation at 25 weeks of gestation was followed by an uneventful pregnancy and delivery of a healthy baby with a normal follow-up at the age of 9 months. Laser coagulation of the feeding vessels seems to be an effective treatment for chorioangiomas when the blood supply is superficial and the feeding vessels are small in diameter.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Fetoscopy
  • Hemangioma / blood supply
  • Hemangioma / diagnostic imaging
  • Hemangioma / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Laser Therapy*
  • Placenta Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Placenta Diseases / physiopathology
  • Placenta Diseases / surgery*
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / diagnostic imaging
  • Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / surgery*
  • Pregnancy Trimester, Second
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal