| Melvin Tefft | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 November 1935 Boston |
| Died | 11 may 2003 |
| Medical career | |
| Institutions | |
| 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. He was the first to report an extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma in 1969.
Early life and education
Melvin Tefft was born on 20 November 1935 in Boston. In 1954 he received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, and in 1958 gained a medical diploma from Boston University School of Medicine.
Career
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. Through the 1960s, at the Boston Children's Hospital, he progressed from assistant professor to chief of the division of radiology. He was influenced by Giulio D'Angio.
In 1970, he was at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Selected publications
- 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
- ^ 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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