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COMPLICATIONS OF LUMBAR PUNCTURE
Neurologic Clinics, 1998Abstract Although neurologists often evaluate the surgical complications of other physicians, they are responsible for complications of the lumbar puncture, the quintessential neurological procedure. Headache is the most common complication, usually lasting for 1 week or less, occurring in up to 40% of patients after lumbar puncture ...
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Lumbar Punctures and Meningitis
Pediatrics, 2002To the Editor .— In their article about the timing of lumbar puncture (LP) in bacterial meningitis, Kanegaye et al1 recommend delaying administration of antibiotics until cultures have been taken. We would like to point out that where meningococcal meningitis is suspected, this potentially life-threatening delay may be neither appropriate nor ...
Amanda Kvalsvig, D J Unsworth
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Lumbar Puncture in Meningitis?
Pediatrics, 1996Wiswell et al1 assert that "if lumbar punctures (LPs) are omitted as part of the early neonatal sepsis evaluation, the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis occasionally will be delayed or missed completely." They call into question a study from our institution as well as several others2-5 that have recently concluded that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF ...
Kenneth M. Boyer, Samuel P. Gotoff
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Contraindications to Lumbar Puncture
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986Excerpt To the editor: The indications for, and usefulness of, the spinal tap are reviewed by Marton and Gean (1) in the June issue.
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