Season of tumor surgery in relation to deaths among brain tumor patients: Does sunlight and month of surgery play a role in brain tumor deaths?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1369-1375

  Hakko, Helinä ^a,b   Räsänen, Pirkko ^a,b   Niemelä, Asko ^a,b   Koivukangas, John ^b   Mainio, Arja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Glioma; Seasonality; Surgery; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DARKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; SURVIVAL RATE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449530588     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0438-7     Document Type: Article

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