White matter lesions detected by magnetic resonance imaging after radiotherapy and high-dose chemotherapy in children with medulloblastoma or primitive neuroectodermal tumor

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4551-4560

  Fouladi, Maryam ^a   Chintagumpala, Murali ^a   Laningham, Fred H ^a   Ashley, David ^a   Kellie, Stewart J ^a   Langston, James W ^a   McCluggage, Charles W ^a   Woo, Shaio ^a   Kocak, Mehmet ^a   Krull, Kevin ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a   Mulhern, Raymond K ^a   Gajjar, Amar ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL IRRADIATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION INJURY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NECROSIS; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 16544364451     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.03.058     Document Type: Article

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