Chemotherapy-induced structural changes in cerebral white matter and its correlation with impaired cognitive functioning in breast cancer patients

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 480-493

  Deprez, Sabine ^a   Amant, Frederic ^b   Yigit, Refika ^b   Porke, Kathleen ^a   Verhoeven, Judith ^a   Stock, Jan Van den ^a   Smeets, Ann ^b   Christiaens, Marie Rose ^b   Leemans, Alexander ^c,d   Hecke, Wim Van ^e   Vandenberghe, Joris ^a   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^a   Sunaert, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain; Chemotherapy; Cognition; Diffusion tensor imaging; Executive functioning; Voxel based analysis; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951471900     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21033     Document Type: Article

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