A case is presented in which autopsy findings (deep groove around the fetal waist
and buttock), and gross and microscopic umbilical cord and placental examination (linear
ulcer of umbilical cord histologically rimmed by fetal epidermal implants with evidence
of remote bleeding) established the diagnosis of umbilical cord encirclement as a
cause of intrauterine fetal death despite the lack of prenatal or postnatal obstetrical
evidence.
Fetus - stillbirth - umbilical cord
