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CALDERA HERNANDEZ, Francis Montserrat  e  GARCIA LOPEZ, Valeria. Spurious placenta. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.2, pp.194-196.  Epub 31-Out-2022. ISSN 1870-7203.  https://doi.org/10.35366/104285.

The placenta is an organ with a great functional reserve capacity. It can frequently present infarcts, calcifications, degenerations, and even so it allows the reconstruction of new areas or capillary extensions in the site where there were senile regressions, appearing new functional demands. The spurious placenta is considered a morphological alteration of the placenta, where one or more accessory or aberrant lobes may appear, with the characteristic of presenting the connection of fetal vessels to the main lobe. Having its differential diagnosis with the succenturiate placenta, which presents the attachment of the accessory lobe through blood vessels. They are entities that should be looked for intentionally during an ultrasound since it allows important complications such as retention of placental remains and as a consequence obstetric hemorrhage.

Palavras-chave : Spurious placenta; succenturiate placenta; accessory lobes.