Clinical course of adult patients with ependymoma: Results of the Adult Ependymoma Outcomes Project

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5133-5141

  Armstrong, Terri S ^a,b   Vera Bolanos, Elizabeth ^b   Gilbert, Mark R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer treatment; central nervous system; quality of life; symptoms; tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPENDYMOMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; IRRITABILITY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN TINGLING; SLEEP DISORDER; SPEECH DISORDER; SPINE INJURY; SPINE TUMOR; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL DISORDER; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPENDYMOMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80555155584     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26181     Document Type: Article

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