WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2003: Re: menstrual clot or early miscarriage.. or something else?

Re: menstrual clot or early miscarriage.. or something else?

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:16:57 -0600 (CST)

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At Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Leslie wrote: >
>This is my first post. I had something occur and have been trying to
>determine what it may have been. I have been looking through other
>posts regarding menstrual clots, and I can't find any of them that
>described it. A blob was released that was perhaps a bit larger than a
>golf ball. But it was not a jellified mass that would be descibed as a
>big lump of blood. When examined it was not a ball at all, but opened
>and flattened out. The flat part can best be described as a fibrous,
>texture .. sort of mesh looking (possibly translucent although I did
>not hold it up to a light). Scattered about on top of this fibrous mesh
>were small globules (perhaps pearl-size or smaller) of bright red blood,
>and in a few areas much darker masses that were of no particular shape.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>--
> -leslie
>

It is called a decidual cast, which is a sloughing off of the uterine lining. Not really something related to pathology, nor needs to be evaluated, unless it is associated with abnormal bleeding.

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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