Winter birth in association with a risk of brain tumor among a Finnish patient population

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 57-60

  Mainio, Arja ^a,b   Hakko, Helinä ^b   Koivukangas, John ^b   Niemelä, Asko ^b   Räsänen, Pirkko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birth season; Brain tumor; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLIMATE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTURITION; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748665448     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094578     Document Type: Article

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