Molecular Diagnosis of Hydatidiform Moles is Ready for Primetime
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Copyright: © 2012 Hui P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In recent months, two specialty pathology journals chose article images of molecular diagnosis of hydatidiform mole as the journal front covers: the March issue of The International Journal of Gynecological Pathology [1] and the July issue of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics released [2]. Such emerging interests in the molecular diagnosis of hydatidiform moles may be explained by one simple reason that is our inability to accurately diagnose these common conditions by traditional histology and ancillary studies.
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