Brain tumor signs and symptoms: Analysis of primary health care records from the UKCCS

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-119

  Ansell, Pat ^a   Johnston, Tom ^a   Simpson, Jill ^a   Crouch, Simon ^a   Roman, Eve ^a   Picton, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Medical charts; Primary health care; Signs and symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; BACK STIFFNESS; BACKACHE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIRTH; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIPLOPIA; DROWSINESS; EPILEPSY; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENDER; GROWTH DISORDER; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD TILTING; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MIGRAINE; MONOPLEGIA; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK MALFORMATION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEWBORN; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; PAPILLEDEMA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOBIA; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; SPINE DISEASE; STIFF NECK; STRABISMUS; SYMPTOM; TINNITUS; TORTICOLLIS; TREMOR; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNSTEADINESS; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICAL RECORDS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 74049141444     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0254     Document Type: Article

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