Long-term cognitive outcome, brain computed tomography scan, and magnetic resonance imaging in children cured for acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2562-2570

  Iuvone, Laura ^a   Mariotti, Paolo ^a   Colosimo, Cesare ^a,b   Guzzetta, Francesco ^a   Ruggiero, Antonio ^a   Riccardi, Riccardo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Brain CT scan; Brain MRI; Children; Cognitive outcome

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL IRRADIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHOTREXATE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037114738     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10999     Document Type: Article

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