Citation

Miller RW. Teratology 1999; 59(4): 234-235.

Affiliation

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7236, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/(SICI)1096-9926(199904)59:4<234::AID-TERA8>3.0.CO;2-B

PMID

10331525

Abstract

When I was in medical school, Douglas Power Murphy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, told us of his inexpensive, simple study of "microcephaly" and mental retardation in newborn infants whose mothers had received therapeutic radiation early in pregnancy. His review of the literature and mail inquiry of other obstetrics centers in the United States revealed 14 published cases (Murphy, '28) and 16 unpublished (Goldstein and Murphy, '29). Here am I, 52 years later, still updating his findings.

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