"Friendly fire" in medicine: hormones, homografts, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Lancet. 1992 Jul 4;340(8810):24-7. doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(92)92431-e.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Causality
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 20
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / epidemiology*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / genetics
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / transmission
  • Drug Contamination / statistics & numerical data
  • Genetic Carrier Screening
  • Growth Hormone / adverse effects
  • Humans
  • Iatrogenic Disease / epidemiology*
  • Neurosurgery / instrumentation
  • Time Factors
  • Transplantation / adverse effects

Substances

  • Growth Hormone