Late effects of CNS radiation therapy

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 150, Issue , 2009, Pages 23-41

  Shih, Helen A ^a   Loeffler, Jay S ^a,b   Tarbell, Nancy J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALOPECIA; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; FORECASTING; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; METHODOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SECOND CANCER; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVOR; TIME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; FORECASTING; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIATION INJURIES; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77956633792     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/b109924_3     Document Type: Review

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