A lumbar puncture is a test to check the fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal cord. This is called the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF. A lumbar puncture can check for cancer cells or for ...

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Objective: To determine the aetiologies and clinical characteristics of infants with fever and a bulging fontanelle. Design: The medical records of all febrile infants with a bulging fontanelle who ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether a period of bed rest reduces the incidence of headache or other complications in patients undergoing diagnostic lumbar puncture. Altogether 85 ...

montefiore.org Background and purpose In the past 50 years, fluoroscopic guidance has been used to improve upon lumbar puncture (LP) technique that was unchanged for over a century. Recently, CT has ...

mayo.edu Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is characterized by headache, papilledema, visual field changes and tinnitus with elevated cerebral spinal fluid opening pressures on lumbar ...

The surgical procedure lasted 50 min. During the operation, the patient's obesity and the thick subcutaneous fat layer in the lumbar region increased the difficulty of puncture positioning, leading to ...

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The most common way to attain a sample is through a lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal tap.‌ Spinal taps can be unnerving or uncomfortable, but the procedure is fairly simple. During the ...

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.