Clinical case study: A 4-Year-Old boy with posterior fossa syndrome after resection of a medulloblastoma

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 225-229

  Mortimer, Diane Schretzman ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CRANIOTOMY; DYSPHAGIA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUTISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NURSING; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REHABILITATION NURSING; SYNDROME;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MUTISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REHABILITATION NURSING; SYNDROME;

EID: 80053583756     PISSN: 08880395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JNN.0b013e3182212af9     Document Type: Article

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