Fine motor and handwriting problems after treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 551-555

  Reinders Messelink, Heleen A ^a   Schoemaker, Marina M ^a   Hofte, Marjorie ^a   Göeken, Ludwig N H ^a   Kingma, Annet ^a   Van Den Briel, Meta M ^a   Kamps, Willem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute lymphoblastic leukemia; children; fine motor problems; handwriting problems; late effects; vincristine neuropathy

Indexed keywords

VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS;

EID: 0029857908     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199612)27:6<551::AID-MPO8>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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