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Lumbar puncture: considerations, procedure, and complications [PDF]
Encephalitis, 2022 Lumbar puncture is an important technique used to obtain cerebrospinal fluid, administer medications, and monitor intracerebral pressure. As essential invasive approach to diagnosing and treating central nervous system disorders, clinicians should be ...
Keun Tae Kim
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To Lumbar Puncture or Not to Lumbar Puncture: A Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Lyme disease is a zoonotic infection increasing in prevalence across the United States. While the recognition of its classic clinical signs is sufficient to establish the diagnosis in the early stages, the diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) may be challenging and the diagnostic approaches may have to be tailored.
Mina Said, Carlos A Portales-Castillo
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Multiple lumbar punctures have historically been a strategy to relieve headaches associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension despite limited clinical evidence of long-term efficacy.
Hannah S. Lyons +6 more
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Ultrasound-Guided vs. Landmark-Guided Lumbar Puncture for Obese Patients in Emergency Department
Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 ObjectiveEmergency patients are in severe and urgent condition. If the patient is obese, the traditional lumbar puncture method is more difficult. This study was to observe the comparison of ultrasound-guided and landmark-guided lumbar puncture for obese
Lei Li, Weichen Tao, Xue Cai
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Zhongguo cuzhong zazhi, 2023 : Objective To evaluate the effect of virtual reality (VR) combined with simulation mode in the teaching of lumbar puncture for undergraduates. Methods A total of 30 undergraduates in the Second Affiliated Hospital, Air Force Medical University ...
孙超，薛梦，颜镇洪，杨倩，常婷
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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2023 In lumbar puncture surgery, compared with the conventional methodologies like computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound imaging offers the advantages of being low cost, no radiation and real-time image generation. However, the use of
Wenlu Zhang +9 more
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The failed lumbar puncture [PDF]
Neurology, 2005 Lumbar puncture (LP) is one of the few procedures that neurologists routinely perform and one for which they usually take pride in their performance skills. Rare is the seasoned neurologist who needs fluoroscopy to perform an LP. However, for the neophyte, the successful performance of an LP can be difficult, especially in the uncooperative ...
Farhad Sahebkar-Moghaddam +1 more
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Suboccipital lateral injection of intrathecal chemotherapy in a patient with mantle cell lymphoma [PDF]
, 2004 Background: Even today patients who suffer from mantle cell lymphoma have a poor prognosis, especially when the CNS is involved. To confirm the diagnosis of meningeosis lymphomatosa, asservation of the liquor cerebrospinalis is necessary.
Bruning, R. +3 more
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BMC Neurology, 2017 Background Lumbar puncture is often used for the diagnosis and treatment of subarchnoid hemorrhage, infection of Cerebro-spinal Fluid (CSF), hydrocephalus in neurosurgery department patients.
Liang Shen +4 more
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