Survival and neurodevelopmental outcome of young children with medulloblastoma at St Jude Children's Research Hospital

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3720-3728

  Walter, Andrew W ^a   Mulhern, Raymond K ^a   Gajjar, Amar ^a   Heideman, Richard L ^a   Reardon, David ^a   Sanford, R Alex ^a   Xiong, Xiaoping ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032804331     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1999.17.12.3720     Document Type: Article

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