Epidemiologic profile of pediatric brain tumors in Morocco

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1021-1027

  Karkouri, Mehdi ^a   Zafad, Sadia ^a   Khattab, Mohammed ^b   Benjaafar, Noureddine ^c   El Kacemi, Hanan ^c   Sefiani, Sana ^d   Kettani, Fouad ^e   Dey, Subhojit ^f   Soliman, Amr S ^f  

^a IBN ROCHD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

^b Hopital d'Enfants   (Morocco)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Morocco)

^d IBN SINA HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

^e United Nations Center for Pathology   (Morocco)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Central nervous system; Descriptive epidemiology; Morocco; Pediatric brain tumors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EPENDYMOBLASTOMA; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; MOROCCO; NEUROBLASTOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PINEOBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOROCCO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956192204     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1097-y     Document Type: Article

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