Sökning: "Childhood brain tumours"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Childhood brain tumours.
1. Glioneuronal tumours in childhood : Clinical picture, long-term outcome and possible new treatments
Sammanfattning : Background: Glioneuronal tumours are a subgroup of low-grade tumours of the central nervous system (CNS), often causing epilepsy. Overall survival is excellent, but data regarding long-term seizure outcome and late effects are scarce. LÄS MER
2. Childhood brain tumours : health and function in adult survivors and parental fears
Sammanfattning : The general aim of the present research was to investigate health and functional ability of patients treated for childhood brain tumour and systematically examine parental fears after a child s brain tumour. The aims were realised through two part-studies. LÄS MER
3. Medical, cognitive and motor outcome after treatment of pilocytic astrocytoma in the posterior fossa in childhood
Sammanfattning : Introduction: Pilocytic astrocytoma is the most common brain tumour in childhood. The aim of the studies was to investigate late medical, cognitive and motor complications in patients treated in childhood for pilocytic astrocytoma in the posterior fossa. LÄS MER
4. Epidemiological studies including new methods for cluster analysis of acute childhood leukaemia and brain tumours in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Background: The aetiology in childhood cancer is essentially unknown. Epidemiological investigations as to whether the incidence rates have changed for paediatric cancers or whether clustering of cases occur may give clues to possible causal factors. LÄS MER
5. Sad, shattered or slow? Fatigue after childhood cancer
Sammanfattning : Systematic assessments of cognition, fatigue, and mental health in survivors ofchildhood cancer can serve two different purposes. One is to enable research about development over time and medical predictors of cognitive deficits. The other is to identify individual patients in need of rehabilitation or interventions. LÄS MER