Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes

We carried out a nationwide case–control study of childhood brain tumours in Sweden (n=512) by histological subtype in relation to prenatal ultrasound, extracting data from antenatal records and the Medical Birth Register. We found no increased risk for brain tumour after ultrasound exposure, either...

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Autores principales: Stålberg, K, Haglund, B, Axelsson, O, Cnattingius, S, Pfeifer, S, Kieler, H
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2008
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18349848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604284
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author Stålberg, K
Haglund, B
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spelling pubmed-23596312009-09-10 Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes Stålberg, K Haglund, B Axelsson, O Cnattingius, S Pfeifer, S Kieler, H Br J Cancer Epidemiology We carried out a nationwide case–control study of childhood brain tumours in Sweden (n=512) by histological subtype in relation to prenatal ultrasound, extracting data from antenatal records and the Medical Birth Register. We found no increased risk for brain tumour after ultrasound exposure, either for all tumours or for any subgroup. Nature Publishing Group 2008-04-08 2008-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2359631/ /pubmed/18349848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604284 Text en Copyright © 2008 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Epidemiology
Stålberg, K
Haglund, B
Axelsson, O
Cnattingius, S
Pfeifer, S
Kieler, H
Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
title Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
title_full Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
title_fullStr Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
title_full_unstemmed Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
title_short Prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
title_sort prenatal ultrasound and the risk of childhood brain tumour and its subtypes
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18349848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604284
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