Long-term complications and quality of life in children with intraspinal tumors

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 844-848

  Poretti, Andrea ^a   Zehnder, Daniel ^a   Boltshauser, Eugen ^a   Grotzer, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intraspinal tumors; Outcome; Quality of life; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPONDYLODESIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; PARESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVORS; TIME; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 40449130731     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21284     Document Type: Article

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