Neurocognitive Deficits in Medulloblastoma Patients

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.

Keywords

• medulloblastoma
• neuropsychological testing
• normal white matter