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. 2020 Oct 24;12(10):e11130. doi: 10.7759/cureus.11130

Table 1. Description of different parameters within healthy villi.

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.

  Healthy Villi
Parameter Min Max Mean SD Median 25th percentile 75th percentile
The placental barrier thickness (µ) 10.6 809.1 128.9 126.8 101.2 53.7 161.6
The number of Hofbauer cells 0.0 5.0 2.5 1.3 2.0 2.0 3.0
The surface area of the blood vessels (μ2) 12895.1 523957.5 107338.0 105474.8 68531.9 30635.1 125385.4
The perimeters of the blood vessels (µ) 441.0 8202.8 1959.2 1780.6 1214.8 842.1 2419.0
The number of the blood vessels 0.0 8.0 3.1 2.1 3.0 2.0 4.0
The surface area of the villous (μ2) 195624.2 2395629.3 989101.6 519510.5 836488.7 637191.4 1483223.2
The placental barrier thickness/perimeters of the villous blood vessels ratio 0.721591 53.176290 17.690717 13.242211 13.513306 7.526904 28.527810
The placental barrier thickness/surface area of the blood vessels ratio 0.000650 1.677623 0.273575 0.423930 0.045728 0.013159 0.286780
The number of Hofbauer cells/surface area of the villous ratio 0.000074 0.211817 0.005724 0.033870 0.000284 0.000196 0.000364
The number of the blood vessels/surface area of the villous ratio 0.000001 0.000008 0.000004 0.000002 0.000004 0.000003 0.000004
The surface area of the blood vessels/surface area of the villous ratio 0.015626 0.425395 0.128724 0.111073 0.105644 0.030182 0.190623
The perimeters of the blood vessels/surface area of the villous ratio 0.000000 0.000162 0.000032 0.000036 0.000023 0.000013 0.000039