Central Nervous System Complications in Children Receiving Chemotherapy or Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

• Main Authors: Duccio Maria Cordelli (Author), Riccardo Masetti (Author), Daniele Zama (Author), Francesco Toni (Author), Ilaria Castelli (Author), Emilia Ricci (Author), Emilio Franzoni (Author), Andrea Pession (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Therapy-related neurotoxicity greatly affects possibility of survival and quality of life of pediatric patients treated for cancer. Central nervous system (CNS) involvement is heterogeneous, varying from very mild and transient symptoms to extremely severe and debilitating, or even lethal syndromes....