Birth Defects in the Seveso Area After TCDD Contamination

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 259, Issue 11, 1988, Pages 1668-1672

  Mastroiacovo, Pierpaolo ^a   Spagnolo, Amedeo ^b   Marni, Ernesto ^c   Meazza, Luigi ^d   Bertollini, Roberto ^e   Segni, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d Special Office for Seveso ^*  (United States)

^e Epidemiologic Unit of Latium Region ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN;

ABNORMALITIES; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMANGIOMA; HIP DISLOCATION, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; REGISTRIES; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 84944653643     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1988.03720110030030     Document Type: Article

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