Atypical white matter volume development in children following craniospinal irradiation

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-19

  Reddick, Wilburn E ^a,b,c   Glass, John O ^a   Palmer, Shawna L ^a   Wu, Shingjie ^a   Gajjar, Amar ^a   Langston, James W ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a   Xiong, Xiaoping ^a   Mulhern, Raymond K ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; LOMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ABNORMALITIES, RADIATION-INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 14644440507     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S1152851704000079     Document Type: Article

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