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Article: Impairments are associated with long-term survival of childhood brain tumors.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- March 17, 2003
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2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Impairments are associated with long-term survival of childhood brain tumors.
According to recent research from Slovenia, "Sixty-one long-term survivors, treated for brain tumors in childhood, were evaluated in term of neurological impairments, disability, and handicap.
"Thirty-eight patients (62%) had at least one impairment. Visual impairment was detected in 14 pts (24%), associated with recurrence (p=.012). Thirty-four patients (56%) had motor impairment, associated with sex (female) in irradiated patients; 13 (21%) had epilepsy, associated with supratentorial tumor site (p=.001)," wrote M. Macedoni-Luksic ...