Impact of craniospinal dose, boost volume, and neurologic complications on intellectual outcome in patients with medulloblastoma

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1760-1768

  Moxon Emre, Iska ^a,b   Bouffet, Eric ^a   Taylor, Michael D ^a,b   Laperriere, Normand ^b,c   Scantlebury, Nadia ^a   Law, Nicole ^a   Spiegler, Brenda J ^a,b   Malkin, David ^a,b   Janzen, Laura ^a,b   Mabbott, Donald ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTELLECT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGITIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUTISM; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84904895951     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.52.3290     Document Type: Article

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