Long-Term Cognitive Deficits Following Posterior Fossa Tumor Resection: A Neuropsychological and Functional Neuroimaging Follow-Up Study

Neuropsychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 694-704

  De Smet, Hyo Jung ^a   Baillieux, Hanne ^a   Wackenier, Peggy ^b   De Praeter, Mania ^c   Engelborghs, Sebastiaan ^b,d,e   Paquier, Philippe F ^a,f   De Deyn, Peter P ^b,d,e   Mariën, Peter ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Memory Clinic   (Belgium)

^c ZNA Middelheim ^*  (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

children; cognition; mutism; posterior fossa syndrome; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MUTISM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 72149101227     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016106     Document Type: Article

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