Presentation of childhood CNS tumours: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 685-695

  Wilne, Sophie ^a   Collier, Jacqueline ^b   Kennedy, Colin ^c   Koller, Karin ^a   Grundy, Richard ^a   Walker, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CASE STUDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COORDINATION DISORDER; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDER; GROWTH DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MACROCEPHALY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PAPILLEDEMA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SEIZURE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE MALFORMATION; STRABISMUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISION DISORDERS; VOMITING;

EID: 34547469057     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(07)70207-3     Document Type: Article

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