Teratology in the Twentieth Century: Congenital Malformations in Humans and How their Environmental Causes were EstablishedElsevier, 06/06/2003 - 166 páginas This book is an an up-to-date survey and summary of present knowledge and future expectations regarding the environmental causes of congenital malformations in human beings, beginning with the earliest discoveries of the 20th century up to the latest ideas and problems at its end, presents views and comments on the progress made over the century in understanding human prenatal maldevelopment. |
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... severe degrees of faultiness of structure, causing death or serious medical consequences, while functional abnormalities are excluded, but not always. Another writer, however, distinguishes between severe and less severe malformations ...
... severe degrees of faultiness of structure, causing death or serious medical consequences, while functional abnormalities are excluded, but not always. Another writer, however, distinguishes between severe and less severe malformations ...
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... severe or mild, there is no such thing as a minor malformation,” employing his customary terminological precision to distinguish the latter from minor anomalies'). There are pragmatic reasons for this primary distinction. Major ...
... severe or mild, there is no such thing as a minor malformation,” employing his customary terminological precision to distinguish the latter from minor anomalies'). There are pragmatic reasons for this primary distinction. Major ...
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... severe congenital malformations caused by thalidomide (Lenz, 1962; McBride, 1961a,b). The main function of registries supposedly is to alert to impending malformation epidemics and hopefully to avert them, purposes they hope to achieve ...
... severe congenital malformations caused by thalidomide (Lenz, 1962; McBride, 1961a,b). The main function of registries supposedly is to alert to impending malformation epidemics and hopefully to avert them, purposes they hope to achieve ...
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... severity of the condition, i.e., amount of reduction of head circumference, be determined. That discovery awaited a ... severe abnormalities—especially cataract and microcephaly—occurring only before the 17th week. Dosage information ...
... severity of the condition, i.e., amount of reduction of head circumference, be determined. That discovery awaited a ... severe abnormalities—especially cataract and microcephaly—occurring only before the 17th week. Dosage information ...
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... severe mental retardation, earlier there appeared to be no clearly detectable threshold below which such effects did ... severity of prenatal effects were related to the dose of radiation received and the stage of pregnancy exposed. The ...
... severe mental retardation, earlier there appeared to be no clearly detectable threshold below which such effects did ... severity of prenatal effects were related to the dose of radiation received and the stage of pregnancy exposed. The ...
Índice
CHAPTER 12 SURVEILLANCE OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS | 181 |
CHAPTER 13 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS | 182 |
CHAPTER 14 HUMAN DISEASE AS TERATOGEN | 185 |
CHAPTER 15 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS | 197 |
CHAPTER 16 DISEASE MEDICATION AND TERATOGENESIS | 210 |
CHAPTER 17 FOLIC ACID AND HUMAN MALFORMATIONS | 224 |
CHAPTER 18 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING PREGNANCY | 237 |
CHAPTER 19 THE ACCOMPLISHMENT AND THE EXPECTATION | 255 |
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CHAPTER 10 TESTING FOR TERATOGENICITY | 173 |
CHAPTER 11 TERATOLOGICAL DETOURS | 175 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 256 |
INDEX | 283 |
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