Magnetic resonance imaging in childhood leukemia survivors treated with cranial radiotherapy: A cross sectional, single center study

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 240-246

  Faraci, Maura ^a   Morana, Giovanni ^a   Bagnasco, Francesca ^a   Barra, Salvina ^b   Polo, Paola ^a   Hanau, Guia ^a   Fioredda, Francesca ^a   Caruso, Silvia ^a   Rossi, Andrea ^a   Spaziante, Renato ^b   Haupt, Riccardo ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral cavernomas; Cranial radiotherapy; Leukemic children; Magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CEREBRAL CAVERNOMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRANIAL RADIOTHERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSE RADIATION LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOSIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY ATROPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LEUKEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79959214464     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22923     Document Type: Article

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