Injuries to inferior vermis and dentate nuclei predict poor neurological and neuropsychological outcome in children with malignant posterior fossa tumors

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1338-1347

  Puget, Stephanie ^a   Boddaert, Nathalie ^a   Viguier, Delphine ^b   Kieffer, Virginie ^c,d   Bulteau, Christine ^d   Garnett, Matthew ^a,e   Callu, Delphine ^b   Sainte Rose, Christian ^a   Kalifa, Chantal ^d   Dellatolas, Georges ^b   Grill, Jacques ^d  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c National Hospital   (France)

^d INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^e ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Neuropsychological assessment; Neurosurgery; Primary brain tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AKINETIC MUTISM; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN INJURY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DYSMETRIA; EPENDYMOMA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH THERAPY; TREMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 63449134719     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24150     Document Type: Article

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