Effects of supratentorial and infratentorial tumor location on cognitive functioning of children with brain tumor.
Claudia CortiCosimo UrgesiMaura MassiminoLorenza GandolaAlessandra BardoniGeraldina PoggiPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2019)
Tumor location seems not to influence cognitive performance, while radiotherapy constitutes a key risk factor for cognitive impairment. Attentional and reading abilities may improve over time, possibly due to the weakening of cancer care effects. Different patterns of cognitive associations seem to characterize supratentorial and infratentorial patients, probably associated with different neuroplastic reorganization processes after tumor occurrence.