Longitudinal assessment of childhood optic gliomas: Relationship between flicker visual evoked potentials and magnetic resonance imaging findings

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-96

  Falsini, Benedetto ^a   Ziccardi, Lucia ^b   Lazzareschi, Ilaria ^a   Ruggiero, Antonio ^a   Placentino, Luca ^a   Dickmann, Anna ^a   Liotti, Lucia ^a   Piccardi, Marco ^a   Balestrazzi, Emilio ^a   Colosimo, Cesare ^a   Di Rocco, Concezio ^a   Riccardi, Riccardo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood optic glioma; Flicker; Longitudinal assessment; Magnetic resonance imaging; Visual evoked potentials; Visual function

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; OPTOMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 42349111726     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-008-9537-1     Document Type: Article

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