Latency of pediatric brain tumors diagnosis in province of Delta, a team experience

Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-328

  Badr, Hatem ^a   Mansour, Mohammed ^a   Zaher, Ahmed ^a   Shaker, Ashraf ^a   Badry, Ashraf ^a   Monem, Ashraf Abdel ^a   Maaty, Hosam ^b   Salama, Hassan ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Children brain tumor diagnosis latency; Pre diagnostic symptomatic period; Prognosis of brain tumors

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; AWARENESS; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; SEX DETERMINATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 69949182072     PISSN: 11101083     EISSN: 16878329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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