Figure 2.
Abnormal placentation in preeclampsia. Note the decreased trophoblastic invasion at decidual and myometrial levels, narrower vascular lumen of the maternal uterine spiral artery, and failure of trophoblast cells to replace the maternal endothelium lining of the spiral artery in the preeclamptic placenta. Reproduced from Kita and Mitsushita,20 with permission.
