Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0006p205 | (1) | ICCBH2017

Osteopathologies and endocrine late effects in a cohort of 102 juvenile survivors of brain tumors

Schundeln Michael , Fritzemeier Sebastian , Hauffa Pia , Bauer Jens , Hauffa Berthold , Grasemann Corinna

Objectives: Endocrine late effects, including osteopathologies, following diagnosis and treatment of childhood malignancies are studied in adult survivors with alarming results. However, in pediatric patients with brain tumors the risk to develop endocrine late effects is high even during childhood and adolescence.Aim and design: To investigate osteopathologies and endocrine function in juvenile survivors of pediatric brain tumors we conducted a cross-se...