Two year survival after malignant cerebral glioma: Patient and relative reports of handicap, psychiatric symptoms and rehabilitation

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 259-266

  Davies, E ^a   Hall, S ^a   Clarke, C ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; RELATIVE; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORK CAPACITY; WORK RESUMPTION;

EID: 0037452839     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963828021000024915     Document Type: Article

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