Quality of life and brain tumors: What beyond the clinical burden?

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 894-904

  Giovagnoli, Anna Rita ^a   Meneses, Rute Flávia ^b   Silvani, Antonio ^a   Milanesi, Ida ^a   Fariselli, Laura ^a   Salmaggi, Andrea ^a   Boiardi, Amerigo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Cognition; Mood; Physical performance; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; NITROSOUREA;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LIVING INDEX CANCER; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WELLBEING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84901935081     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7273-3     Document Type: Article

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