Neurocognitive Deficits in Medulloblastoma Patients

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-13-12-7

Neurocognitive Deficits in Medulloblastoma Patients

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 13 (1999): Issue 12

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Dec 1999

Abstract

Eighteen children previously treated surgically and with craniospinal irradiation for medulloblastoma (MED), and matched with a group having low-grade posterior fossa tumors with surgery alone, received neuropsychological testing and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging for white matter loss at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-13-12-7 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 93 - 93

Published on: Dec 1, 1999

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Medulloblastoma,

Neuropsychological Testing,

Normal White Matter

© 1999 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 13 (1999): Issue 12