Neuropsychologic functioning of survivors of childhood medulloblastoma randomized to receive conventional or reduced-dose craniospinal irradiation: A Pediatric Oncology Group study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1723-1728

  Mulhern, Raymond K ^a   Kepner, James L ^a   Thomas, Patrick R ^a   Armstrong, F Daniel ^a   Friedman, Henry S ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0031804128     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1998.16.5.1723     Document Type: Article

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