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Research Article| Volume 21, ISSUE 4, P473-477, April 1966

Prenatal therapeutic radiation

Preliminary report of two cases
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      Abstract

      A case has been reported in which a female patient received abdominal radiation in the vicinity of the ovaries in excess of the 30 year maximum permissible dosage of 10 r to genetic tissue and subsequently gave birth to two children with dental anomalies.
      Whether the anomalies reported represent natural mutations or induced mutations is open to question.
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