The incidence of placenta accreta has increased over the
last 30 years [14, 15], and pathologists have an opportunity
to improve the quality of patient care and research by
standardizing their assessment of these specimens. We
have offered our systematic protocol which we have found
quite beneficial. Standardizing the pathologic evaluation
can provide a framework for further discussion and will
help to differentiate the severity of abnormal placentation.
Example reports are included at the end of this section.