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Tuberculous placenta: a rare bird but not extinct
  1. Laura Miranda1,
  2. Irfanali Kugasia2,
  3. Liying Han3,
  4. Dipak Chandy1,
  5. Oleg Epelbaum1
  1. 1 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Westchester Medical Center Health Network, Valhalla, New York, USA
  2. 2 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, Waxahachie, Texas, USA
  3. 3 Department of Pathology, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Laura Miranda, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Westchester Medical Center Health Network, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA; drlauramiranda{at}me.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-139902

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    • Contributors Conception of manuscript: all authors. Pathology image acquisition and processing: LH. Writing of manuscript: LM, OE. Review and approval of manuscript: all authors.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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