Birth weight and subsequent risk of childhood primary brain tumors: An updated meta-analysis

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Dahlhaus, Anne ^a,b   Prengel, Peggy ^c   Spector, Logan ^d   Pieper, Dawid ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

birth weight; brain neoplasms; child; meta analysis; update

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EPENDYMOMA; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; META ANALYSIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ASTROCYTOMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE;

EID: 84996599610     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26299     Document Type: Article

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