Risk of primary childhood brain tumors related to season of birth in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-78

  Makino, Keishi ^a   Nakamura, Hideo ^a   Hide, Taku Ichiro ^a   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Children; Etiology; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BIRTH; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 78951485009     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1235-6     Document Type: Article

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