Impairment of intellectual functions after surgery and posterior fossa irradiation in children with ependymoma is related to age and neurologic complications

BACKGROUND: To investigate the neuropsychological outcome of children treated with surgery and posterior fossa irradiation for localized infratentorial ependymoma. METHODS: 23 patients (age 0.3 – 14 years at diagnosis) who were treated with local posterior fossa irradiation (54 Gy) underwent one (4...

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Autores principales: von Hoff, Katja, Kieffer, Virginie, Habrand, Jean-Louis, Kalifa, Chantal, Dellatolas, Georges, Grill, Jacques
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18208613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-8-15

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18208613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-8-15

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