Long-term sequelae in children treated for brain tumors: Impairments, disability, and handicap

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-101

  Macedoni Lukšič, Marta ^a   Jereb, Berta ^b   Todorovski, Lupco ^c  

^a University Hospital Center   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Children; Late effects

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; LOMUSTINE; METHOTREXATE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISABLED CHILDREN; EPILEPSY; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; LEARNING DISORDERS; LOMUSTINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; METHOTREXATE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREVALENCE; PROCARBAZINE; RADIATION INJURIES; SLOVENIA; SURVIVORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNEMPLOYMENT; VINCRISTINE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0037370663     PISSN: 08880018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0880010390158595     Document Type: Article

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