Acute neurocognitive impairment during cranial radiation therapy in patients with intracranial tumors

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 647-654

  Welzel, Grit ^a   Fleckenstein, Katharina ^a,b   Mai, Sabine K ^a   Hermann, Brigitte ^a   Kraus Tiefenbacher, Uta ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Neurocognition; Radiotherapy; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TISSUE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 58149151245     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1830-6     Document Type: Article

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