Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Medulloblastoma

"Medulloblastoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information
Definition  |  Details  |  More General Concepts  |  Related Concepts  |  More Specific Concepts
A malignant neoplasm that may be classified either as a glioma or as a primitive neuroectodermal tumor of childhood (see NEUROECTODERMAL TUMOR, PRIMITIVE). The tumor occurs most frequently in the first decade of life with the most typical location being the cerebellar vermis. Histologic features include a high degree of cellularity, frequent mitotic figures, and a tendency for the cells to organize into sheets or form rosettes. Medulloblastoma have a high propensity to spread throughout the craniospinal intradural axis. (From DeVita et al., Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 5th ed, pp2060-1)


publications
Timeline   |   Most Recent
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medulloblastoma" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Medulloblastoma" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 320 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2018 and 2019
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
© 2024 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.