Transient cerebellar eye closure and mutism after cerebellar tumor surgery: Long-term clinical follow-up of neurologic and behavioral disturbances in a 14-year-old girl

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 122-127

  Catsman Berrevoets, Coriene E ^a   Van Dongen, Hugo R ^a   Aarsen, Femke K ^a   Paquier, Philippe F ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebellar surgery; Medulloblastoma; Mutism; Transient eye closure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MUTISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT CEREBELLAR EYE CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; APRAXIAS; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; EYELID DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MUTISM; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037219949     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068816     Document Type: Article

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