Is there a correlation between duration of presenting symptoms and stage of medulloblastoma at the time of diagnosis?

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 874-880

  Halperin, Edward C ^a,b   Friedman, Henry S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

brain neoplasms; medulloblastoma; pediatric neoplasms; primitive neuroectodermal tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CANCER STAGING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029757513     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960815)78:4<874::AID-CNCR26>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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