[Petar Radovic's concept on the transplantation of the fertilized ovum in human reproduction].
The authors wish to call attention to the fact that, according to available sources, including MEDLINE data base, Dr. Petar Radovic, senior consultant, was the first expert worldwide who had suggested the transplantation of a fertilized egg cell in human reproduction. He presented his paper "Possibility of transplantation of a fertilized egg in woman" at the Fifth Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Sydney in 1967. Dr. Radovic had not considered the respective problem in theoretical aspect only, but he also devised an adequate instrument for performing this procedure in practice. The concept of Dr. Radovic was not well comprehended in our milieu, and accordingly, it remained as an intriguing idea. The ethical and legal issues that might result from implementation of this procedure have not been reviewed in this article.
Mirković
Ljiljana
L
Institute of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade.
Krstić
Miomir
M
Pantović
Dragoljub
D
Pavlović
Budimir
B
Zizić
Vojislav
V
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