Time to diagnosis of paediatric posterior fossa tumours: An 11-year West of Scotland experience 2000-2011

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 364-369

  Kameda Smith, M M ^a   White, M A J ^a   George, E J St ^a   Brown, J I M ^a  

^a SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delay to diagnosis; Paediatric posterior fossa tumours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NYSTAGMUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84877298946     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2012.741731     Document Type: Article

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