Adenocarcinoma of the Vagina: Association of Maternal Stilbestrol Therapy with Tumor Appearance in Young Women

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 284, Issue 16, 1971, Pages 878-881

  Herbst, Arthur L ^a   Ulfelder, Howard ^a   Poskanzer, David C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMINENT ABORTION; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNITED STATES; UTERUS BLEEDING; VAGINA TUMOR;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ABORTION, THREATENED; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0015225140     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197104222841604     Document Type: Article

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