Posterior cranial fossa tumours in children at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 258-260

  Wanyoike, P K ^a  

^a KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOMA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; KENYA; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOMA; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 16544371835     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v81i5.9170     Document Type: Review

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