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Speech-language and hearing complaints of children and adolescents with brain tumors.

Gonçalves MI, Radzinsky TC, da Silva NS, Chiari BM, Consonni D

Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Universìdade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.

Central nervous system (CNS) tumors generally leave sequelae that may compromise speech, language, swallowing, hearing, and voice functions. This report describes the incidence of speech-language and hearing complaints and disorders in children and adolescents with CNS tumor under treatment at one of the most important Brazilian reference center for pediatric cancer. One-hundred ninety patients were examined for speech-pathology screening and analysis: forty-two percent presented with complaints and symptoms. From the remaining patients, 68% presented clinical symptoms and 32% were actually free from any speech-language and hearing-related symptoms. The high incidence of complaints and symptoms indicate that these patients might benefit from specific rehabilitation interventions.

Published 15 January 2008 in Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(3): 706-8.
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