Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten

• Main Author: Kalter, Harold (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Pediatrics.; Epidemiology.; Life sciences.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Life Sciences, general.

Serious congenital malformations are a major contributor to the infant death rate worldwide. Their nonhereditary causes are multiple and complex, and include infectious and metabolic dangers, disease medication, nutritional inadequacy, medicinal products, environmental agents and pollutants, among t...