Melvin Tefft
Melvin Tefft | |
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| Born | 20 November 1935 Boston |
| Died | 11 may 2003 |
| Medical career | |
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| Sub-specialties | Radiation oncology |
Melvin Tefft (20 November 1935 - 11 May 2003), was an American physician who specialised in radiation oncology in children at the Boston Children's Hospital and later at the Massachusetts General Hospital.[1][2] He was the first to report an extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma in 1969.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Melvin Tefft was born on 20 November 1935 in Boston.[1] In 1954 he received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and in 1958 gained a medical diploma from Boston University School of Medicine.[1]
Career
[edit]Tefft completed his internship at Boston City Hospital before taking up his residency in radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also spent a year as a NIH fellow.[1] Through the 1960s, at the Boston Children's Hospital, he progressed from assistant professor to chief of the division of radiology.[1] He was influenced by Giulio D'Angio.[1]
In 1970, he was at the Massachusetts General Hospital.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]- Tefft, M.; Vawter, G. F.; Mitus, A. (June 1969). "Paravertebral "round cell" tumors in children". Radiology. 92 (7): 1501–1509. doi:10.1148/92.7.1501. ISSN 0033-8419. PMID 5799839.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Chougule, Prakash B. (November 2003). "In Memoriam: Melvin Tefft, MD". Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. 25 (11): 839. doi:10.1097/00043426-200311000-00002. ISSN 1077-4114.
- ^ "Melvin H. Tefft Obituary". www.tributearchive.com. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ Veselis, Clinton A.; Awan, Omer; Thomas, Ashanth; Ling, Stephen; Jonnalagadda, Padmaja; Aneja, Amandeep; Ali, Sayed (May 2021). "Bone Tumors Occurring in the Soft Tissues: A Review of the Clinical, Imaging, and Histopathologic Findings". Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 50 (3): 419–429. doi:10.1067/j.cpradiol.2020.06.004. ISSN 1535-6302. PMID 32665061. S2CID 220530415. Archived from the original on 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ Suit, Herman D.; Loeffler, Jay S. (2011). "4. The new department of radiation oncology". Evolution of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Springer. pp. 43–54. ISBN 978-1-4419-6743-5.
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