Musculoskeletal misdiagnoses in children with brain tumors: A nationwide, multicenter case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Childhood brain tumors belong to the cancer type with the longest diagnostic delay, the highest health care utilization prior to diagnosis, and the highest burden of long-term sequelae. We aimed to clarify whether prior musculoskeletal diagnoses in childhood brain cancer were misdiagnoses and whether it affected the diagnostic delay.

Study design

In this retrospective, chart-reviewed case-control study we compared 28 children with brain tumors and a prior musculoskeletal diagnosis to a sex and age-matched control group of 56 children with brain tumors and no prior musculoskeletal diagnosis. Using the Danish registries, the cases were identified from consecutive cases of childhood brain cancers in Denmark over 23 years (1996-2018).

Results

Of 931 children wit

SUBMITTER: Hallundbæk L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10289381 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature