Hofbauer cells are associated with: (A) Single umbilical aery, (B) Maternal diabetes, (C) Early pregnancy, (D) Erythroblastosis foetalis
Answer is C. Hofbauer cells are oval eosinophilic histiocytes with granules and vacuoles found in the placenta, which are of mesenchymal origin, in mesoderm of the chorionic villus, paicularly numerous in early pregnancy.