Neurocognitive deficits in medulloblastoma survivors and white matter loss

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 834-841

  Mulhern, Raymond K ^a,b,c   Reddick, Wilburn E ^a   Palmer, Shawna L ^a   Glass, John O ^a   Elkin, T David ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a,b   Taylor, June ^a   Langston, James ^a,b   Gajjar, Amar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RADIOTHERAPY; SURVIVORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0032727330     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(199912)46:6<834::AID-ANA5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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