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Re: 10 Day Rule

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Subject: Re: 10 Day Rule
From: "Gibbs, S Julian" <s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:09:01 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
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In our shop the 10-day rule is used only for elective 
procedures, such as followup studies or employment 
physicals.  It is occasionally used for some high-dose 
nuclear medicine procedures.  We have always felt that 
management of current illness should take precedence over 
risk to a potentially-present embryo.
Another factor in the demise of the 10-day rule is the 
observation years ago that the maturing follicle is a very 
sensitive stage of oogenesis.  Thus the ovum just before 
fertilization is sensitive, perhaps as much as the early 
embryo.

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S. Julian Gibbs, DDS, PhD               Voice: 615-322-3190
Professor of Radiology                    FAX: 615-322-3764 
Dept. of Radiology & Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville TN 37232-2670 Email:s.julian.gibbs@Vanderbilt.Edu

References:
- 10 Day Rule
  - From: Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>

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