An international case-control study of primary pediatric brain tumors included interviews with mothers of cases diagnosed from 1976 to 1994 and mothers of population controls. Data are available on maternal vitamin use during pregnancy for 1,051 cases and for 1,919 controls from 8 geographic areas i
Early infection and risk of childhood brain tumors (Canada)
β Scribed by Amanda K. Shaw; Peizhi Li; Claire Infante-Rivard
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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