RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Caution regarding podophyllum
JF The British Edition of the Medical Letter on Drugs and
				Therapeutics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 78
OP 78
DO 10.1136/dtb.s1-1.19.78
VO s1-1
IS 19
YR 1962
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/s1-1/19/78.abstract
AB The Medical Letter has several times urged physicians to be cautious in prescribing drugs for women in early pregnancy or of child-bearing age, and has noted certain drugs that should be avoided altogether (The Medical Letter, Brit. ed. 1962, 1, 23, 33, 41). Another in the list of drugs that are best avoided during pregnancy is podophyllum, a cathartic resin which has long been known to disturb mitosis, and which is possibly incriminated in one case of foetal malformation with multiple deformities (J.E. Cullis, Lancet 1962, 2, 511).