Language skills following risk-adapted treatment for medulloblastoma

Developmental Neurorehabilitation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-224

  Lewis, Fiona ^a   Murdoch, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Language intervention; Language outcomes; Medulloblastoma; Risk adapted cranial radiation treatment; Vulnerability model

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPETENCE; CRITICAL THINKING; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECALL; REHABILITATION CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA;

EID: 77952278452     PISSN: 17518423     EISSN: 17518431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17518421003733856     Document Type: Article

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