The adverse effect of therapeutic use of sex hormones during pregnancy inducing pseudohermaphroditism in female offspring has been well known since the early 1950s. Consequently there has been great concern about the potential effects on the offspring of women who use these agents during gestation.
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 27 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-3709
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