Descriptive epidemiology of pediatric intracranial neoplasms in egypt

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 385-395

  El Gaidi, Mohamed Ali ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Children; Egypt; Epidemiology; Intracranial neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC EPENDYMOMA; ANASPLASTIC ASTROCYTOMA; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHORDOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS CARCINOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DEMOGRAPHY; DESMOPLASTIC GANGLIOGLIOMA; DIFFUSE ASTROCYTOMA; DYSPHASIA; EGYPT; EPENDYMOMA; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOM; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOMATOSIS CEREBRI; GLIOSARCOMA; HEADACHE; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MACROCEPHALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; POLYURIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; TERATOMA; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EGYPT; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NEURILEMMOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863535077     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337872     Document Type: Article

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