Las radiaciones en el embarazo

Abstract

Three factors must be ever present in the physician's mind when he is considering diagnostic roentgen procedures or radioisotope studies: maternal somatic, fetal somatic, and fetal genetic effects. Positive steps can be taken such that the total radiation exposure of the human race can be lessened. Muller (26), who first noted mutant effects, so aptly sums up the problem: "We must remember that the thread of germ-plasm which now exists must suffice to furnish seeds of the human race even for the remote future. We are the present custodians of this all-important material, and it is up to us to guard it carefully and not contaminate it for the sake of an ephemeral benefit to our own generation."(AU)