Thalidomide: Was the tragedy preventable?

Lancet

Volumn 351, Issue 9110, 1998, Pages 1197-1199

  Dally, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALIDOMIDE;

FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TERATOLOGY;

EID: 0032542894     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)09038-7     Document Type: Note

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