Almost normal cognitive function in patients during therapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia without cranial irradiation according to ALL-BFM 95 and COALL 06-97 protocols: Results of an Austrian-German multicenter longitudinal study and implications for follow-up

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-109

  Krappmann, Paul ^a   Paulides, Marios ^a   Stöhr, Wolfgang ^a   Ittner, Edith ^a   Plattig, Bernhard ^a   Nickel, Petra ^b   Lackner, Herwig ^c   Schrappe, Martin ^d   Janka, Gritta ^e   Beck, Jörn D ^a   Langer, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Kinder und Jugendheilkunde Graz   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^e Office for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Childhood; CNS prophylaxis; Cognitive function

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TENIPOSIDE; TIOGUANINE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADD ON THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL IRRADIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 34247158203     PISSN: 08880018     EISSN: 15210669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08880010601123281     Document Type: Article

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