[Fetal hypotrophy: morphological pictures of placenta in light and electron microscopy of female residents of the Czenstochow region].

The 16 afterbirths samples obtained from pregnancies complicated by idiopathic fetal hypotrophy was examined. The criteria of hypotrophy were established: the duration of gestation above 36 weeks, the birth-weight was less than 2500 g. The control group included 8 afterbirth samples from physiological full-term pregnancies.