Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging After High-Dose Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy for Childhood Brain Tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1011-1019

  Spreafico, Filippo ^a   Gandola, Lorenza ^a   Marchianò, Alfonso ^a   Simonetti, Fabio ^a   Poggi, Geraldina ^b   Adduci, Anna ^b   Clerici, Carlo Alfredo ^a   Luksch, Roberto ^a   Biassoni, Veronica ^a   Meazza, Cristina ^a   Catania, Serena ^a   Terenziani, Monica ^a   Musumeci, Renato ^a   Fossati Bellani, Franca ^a   Massimino, Maura ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; High dose chemotherapy; Iatrogenic effects; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; TOXICITY;

BRAIN TUMORS; HIGH-DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY; IATROGENIC EFFECTS; NEUROTOXICITY;

ONCOLOGY;

THIOTEPA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; THIOTEPA;

EID: 39749088979     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2377     Document Type: Article

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