A scoring system to quantify late effects in children after treatment for medulloblastoma/ependymoma and its correlation with quality of life and neurocognitive functioning

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-181

  Benesch, Martin ^a   Spiegl, Katharina ^a   Winter, Anita ^a   Passini, Andrea ^a   Lackner, Herwig ^a   Moser, Andrea ^a   Sovinz, Petra ^a   Schwinger, Wolfgang ^a   Urban, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Children; Late effects; Low grade astrocytoma; Neurocognitive functioning; Primitive neuroectodermal tumors; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATE EFFECTS SEVERITY SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049168067     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0742-1     Document Type: Article

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