Impairment of intellectual functions after surgery and posterior fossa irradiation in children with ependymoma is related to age and neurologic complications

BMC Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  von Hoff, Katja ^a,b   Kieffer, Virginie ^a,c   Habrand, Jean Louis ^a   Kalifa, Chantal ^a   Dellatolas, Georges ^d   Grill, Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c Ressource Center for Patients with Brain Injuries   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTERIOR FOSSA; SKULL IRRADIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 39849091355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-15     Document Type: Article

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