Pituitary hormone dysfunction after proton beam radiation therapy in children with brain tumors

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 891-896

  Viswanathan, Vidhya ^a   Pradhan, Kamnesh ^a   Eugster, Erica ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INDIANA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROTONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84855853016     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP10391.OR     Document Type: Article

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