Posterior fossa tumors in children: How long does it take to establish the diagnosis?

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 887-890

  Dörner, Lutz ^a   Fritsch, Michael J ^b   Stark, Andreas M ^a   Mehdorn, Hubertus Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostic delay; Diagnostic interval; Patient management; Pediatric brain tumor; Posterior fossa tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER GRADING; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPENDYMOMA; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE STRAIN; NAUSEA; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRABISMUS; SYMPTOM; TORTICOLLIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 34447105108     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-007-0323-8     Document Type: Article

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