Long-term medical imaging use in children with central nervous system tumors

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 4; p. e0248643
• Main Authors: Bowles, Erin J. A., Miglioretti, Diana L., Kwan, Marilyn L., Bartels, Ute, Furst, Adam, Cheng, Stephanie Y., Lau, Cindy, Greenlee, Robert T., Weinmann, Sheila, Marlow, Emily C., Rahm, Alanna K., Stout, Natasha K., Bolch, Wes E., Theis, Mary Kay, Smith-Bindman, Rebecca, Pole, Jason D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 21.04.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age; Auroral kilometric radiation; Biology and Life Sciences; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical materials; Brain cancer; Cancer; Central nervous system; Central nervous system diseases; Central Nervous System Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Classification; Codes; Cohort Studies; Computed tomography; Diagnosis; Diagnostic imaging; Diagnostic Imaging - statistics & numerical data; Diagnostic Imaging - trends; Editing; Epidemiology; Ethics; Exposure; Female; Fetuses; Funding; Health care; Health care policy; Health policy; Health risks; Health sciences; Health surveillance; Hospitals; Human subjects; Humans; Infant; Ionizing radiation; Leukemia; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - trends; Male; Malignancy; Medical diagnosis; Medical electronics; Medical imaging; Medical prognosis; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methodology; Morphology; Nervous system; Neuroimaging; Oncology; Ontario; Pediatric research; Pediatrics; Public health; Radiation; Radiation effects; Radiography - trends; Radiology; Research and Analysis Methods; Retrospective Studies; Review boards; Statistics; Survival; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - trends; Tumors; Tumors in children; Ultrasonography - trends; United States; Young Adult; United States; Ontario; Canada; Ontario Canada; San Francisco California; United States > US; Northern California; Hawaii; California; Toronto Ontario Canada
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248643

Children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors undergo frequent imaging for diagnosis and follow-up, but few studies have characterized longitudinal imaging patterns. We described medical imaging in children before and after malignant CNS tumor diagnosis. We conducted a retrospective cohort study...