Talk:Molar pregnancy

message: Isn't this normally spelt Hydatidiform?
:You're right: 130,000 against 12,000 google results. I'll change it. JFW | T@lk 07:30, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Isn't

message: Shouldn't this be merged with molar pregnancy? TacoDeposit 05:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I support the merge. --Arcadian 04:03, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Wipfeln 04:15, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep the article 

message: I came to this page as a fairly well-educated layman after reading about a molar pregnancy. After reading through it twice I still have only a vague sense of what this is. What is a mole, in this context? Is this a pregnancy? Apparently not, as it "mimics pregnancy." But the article then goes on to refer to trimesters and uterine growth.
I'm not sure what wikipedia policy is for articles such as this as far as their accesibility for the general population, but I left this page with more questions than answers.Armandtanzarian 21:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insufficient context 

message: Under "Natural history," the article says that a partial mole may occur with a fetus, but the fetus is always malformed and never viable. But the intro paragraph says that a mole may occur with a normal fetus, and the "Treatment" section says that treatment is more difficult when normal fetuses are present. Can normal, viable fetuses occur along with a mole of this type? Aardnavark (talk) 13:26, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other fetuses? 

message: These sections require clarification supported by citations. The language in Prognosis is particularly vague; I rewrote as "childbearing ability" what had been phrased "ability to have children." This is not only nonencyclopedic language, it doesn't indicate whether these are identical figures and reasons as with all women treated for metastatic cancers of the reproductive organs. -- Deborahjay (talk) 15:39, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment and Prognosis - clarification, citations? 

message: From New England Journal of Medicine.  Some good info that could be incorporated:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/16/1639
--Wawot1 (talk) 02:35, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Review Article 

message: As it stands now, the distinction between partial moles and complete moles is not clear in the article.    It needs help! --Wawot1 (talk) 03:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Made the intro a bit more punchy - hope it helps.  I'll be checking the review articles and seeing what I can add.--Cpt ricard (talk) 03:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete vs Partial Moles 

message: I removed a sentence from the intro paragraph which stated that "Molar pregnancies are categorized into partial and complete moles, mainly depending on the amount of maternal tissue present."  First of all, the source provided, a BBC article, did not support this assertion. Although partial and complete moles may have different characteristic morphologies, the defining difference between the two is their genetic makeup, not how much tissue is present. Second of all, a BBC news article is not an appropriate source for a topic on a medicine article (see Wikipedia: Reliable sources:  "For information about academic topics, such as physics or ancient history, scholarly sources are preferred over news stories. Newspapers tend to misrepresent results, leaving out crucial details and reporting discoveries out of context. For example, news reports often fail to adequately report methodology, errors, risks, and costs associated with a new scientific result or medical treatment.")
Wawot1 (talk) 22:59, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there - let's work to make this page better.  Aside from nitpicking the word "tissue" (and I see what you mean now - it's correct but not specific enough) I agree with what you're saying.  But wouldn't it have been better to simply change the word in question rather than remove the entire thing?  We're trying to establish an article where anyone, without any kind of training, can understand what we're talking about, and I believe stating the actual differences helps to do that in an encyclopedic manner.  The difference essentially _is_ whether or not there is any maternal genetic component.  I'll try to see if I can come up with something better written - or if you can too, that'd be great.  As for the link, it was something which I wanted to explain more clearly in a footnote but if we have something better written there might not be a need for it.  As for the reliability of the BBC, well. . . .I think the spirit of the guideline is different than what you're posting here, but we can find something better, I suppose.  --Cpt ricard (talk) 05:25, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amount of maternal tissue 

message: How can this result in an XY genotype?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.114.144.233 (talk) 23:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably this happens when two sperm enter the ovum, one with an X chromosome, the other with a Y, and no duplication occurs. When there's only one sperm (23X), it has to be duplicated (46XX). —82.40.89.223 (talk) 22:11, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication of sperm 

message: How does an ovum lose its nucleus, setting up the possibility of a molar pregnancy? 70.48.36.39 (talk) 22:03, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q Re lack of nucleus 

message: The introduction is written for technical specialists.  It should be clear and simple for ordinary readers; put the technicalities after a simple explanation.  A simple explanation would be something like this from the Cleveland Clinic: "A molar pregnancy occurs when an egg and sperm join incorrectly at fertilization and create a noncancerous tumor. The tumor looks like tiny water-filled sacs, similar to a cluster of grapes. The tumor can’t support a developing embryo and the pregnancy ends. Some people have a miscarriage. If this doesn’t happen, surgery is needed to remove the pregnancy. If left untreated, molar pregnancies can cause serious complications." (Copied text from https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17889-molar-pregnancy.)
I don't want to do it myself because I have no expertise, but I may have to.  Zaslav (talk) 17:07, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simplify the intro