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Assessment of the Incidence of Complications among Patients Undergoing Lumbar Puncture [PDF]

open access: yesHelwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice
:Introduction: Lumbar puncture is a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure performed by inserting a needle into the subarachnoid space to collect cerebrospinal fluid.
Abdelazim Abdelazim
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Suboccipital lateral injection of intrathecal chemotherapy in a patient with mantle cell lymphoma [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Dühmke, Eckhart   +3 more
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Lumbar puncture as possible cause of sudden paradoxical herniation in patient with previous decompressive craniectomy: report of two cases

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Lumbar Puncture in the prone position for Low Birth Weight Neonates

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background Lumbar puncture in the lateral decubitus position will make the neonates uncomfortable and is likely to cause position change and unstable vital signs, and the application of sedative drugs will cause adverse effects.
Wanxu Guo   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of intervertebral disc joint puncture during lumbar puncture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Objective: Penetration of intervertebral disc joint during lumbar puncture might be unnoticed during procedure. However, accelerated degeneration of the disc joint is a long-term consequence of inadvertent penetration.
Gürses, İlke Ali   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Lumbar puncture as a cause of tension pneumocephalus, pneumorrachis, and sacral meningocele infection leading to death: An extremely rare case report

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports, 2022
Although it was first described over 100 years ago, lumbar puncture is still an important diagnostic tool for a variety of infectious and noninfectious neurologic conditions.
Farid Aassouani, MD   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The age-related risk of co-existing meningitis in children with urinary tract infection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Objective: The primary aim of this study was to determine age-stratified rates of co-existing bacterial meningitis in children with urinary tract infection (UTI).
Clifford Vanessa   +27 more
core   +2 more sources

Intracranial Hemorrhage following Lumbar Puncture in a Patient on Apixaban

open access: yesCase Reports in Neurology, 2019
Currently, clinical practice recommendations regarding patients in need of emergent lumbar puncture who are taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are based upon expert opinion, as evidence-based guidelines are unavailable.
Priyanka Vijapura, Michael J. Maniaci
doaj   +1 more source

LUMBAR PUNCTURE [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1897
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openaire   +1 more source

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