Duration of symptoms prior to diagnosis is related inversely to presenting disease stage in children with medulloblastoma

Cancer

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1444-1450

  Halperin, Edward C ^a   Watson, Dorothy M ^a   George, Stephen L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Gender distribution; Medulloblastoma; Symptom duration

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATAXIA; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VOMITING;

EID: 0035871372     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20010415)91:8<1444::AID-CNCR1151>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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