Echinococcosis: Unexpected Occurrence and the Diagnostic Contribution of Routine Histopathology.

Echinococcus is the smallest of the major tapeworms. Humans are incidental hosts who become infected by exposure to soil contaminated with ova from the feces of the canine definitive hosts. The major species are E.

Uterine intravascular fetal material and coagulopathy at peripartum hysterectomy.

Background/aims: To test the hypothesis that obstetrical disseminated intravascular coagulopathy results from an excessive leakage of fetal material into the maternal circulation.

Methods: All peripartum hysterectomy cases for hemorrhage at two suburban Illinois hospitals over 10 years were included. Intravascular presence of fetal material was determined by two pathologists blinded to each other and to any clinical information.