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A Case Series of Children With Medulloblastoma Depicting the Disparities in Care and the Challenges in the Detection and Treatment of Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors in Low-Resource Settings: A Case Study of Uganda.

Victoria Katasi MwebeEmmanuel WegoyeJulie SsekabungaJustine OnenSolomon KibuddeMurali ChintagumpalaJoseph Lubega
Published in: Pediatric neurology (2024)
There are notable differences in the quality of care for children with pediatric central nervous system tumors in LICs when compared with HICs. In Uganda, the challenges in management of these children include few multidisciplinary specialists, long distance from the neurosurgery centers, and difficulties in making a correct pathologic diagnosis, among others.
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