This article presents a detail histopathological study of secundines from 70 patients with premature rupture of the membranes and from 32 patients in whom the membranes ruptured during labour. Inflammatory reactions of varying degrees from mild, moderate to severe were found both in the control and study groups. But there was a higher incidence of inflammatory changes in the study group than in the control group. Moreover the inflammatory changes in the study group were more intense particulary when there were gross evidence of roughnened and meconium stained secundines. In this study, one case of placenta bipartita, one case of congenital anomaly of the umbilical vessels one placenta with retroplacental clots were detected.
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