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eMedicine - Lumbar Puncture (CSF Examination) : Article by Roy Sucholeiki, MD |
 | | CSF analysis reached a peak in the 1950s and early 1960s, when almost no workup of a significant central nervous system (CNS) problem was performed without a lumbar puncture (LP). |
 | | CSF analysis remains important in the diagnosis of infections (eg, bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal, viral, protozoan) and certain inflammatory diseases (eg, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, vasculitis). |
 | | CSF pressure should be measured with the subject in the horizontal lateral decubitus position (as described previously) and relaxed as much as possible. |
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