Donovan James McCune
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American paediatrician, 1902-1976.
Biography of Donovan James McCune
Donovan James McCune qualified in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in 1928. At the time when he published his account of the McCune-Albright syndrome he was a paediatrician at Columbia University, New York.
Bibliography
- E. H. Quimby and D. J. McCune.
Uptake of Radioactive Iodine by the Normal and Disordered Thyroid Gland in Children.
Radiology, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1974, 49: 201-205.
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