Behavioural abnormalities in children with nephrotic syndrome - An underappreciated complication of a standard treatment?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2397-2399

  Neuhaus, Thomas J ^a   Langlois, Valerie ^b,c   Licht, Christoph ^b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

behavioural abnormalities; children; nephrotic syndrome

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CLIMATE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTIVATION; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARD; STEROID THERAPY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; FAMILY RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY RELATIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGY; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954773532     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq358     Document Type: Note

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