Neoplastic meningitis: how MRI and CSF cytology are influenced by CSF cell count and tumor type

P Proemmel, S Pilgram-Pastor, H Sitter… - The Scientific World …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… By contrast, malignant cells of epithelial origin are much more likely to adhere and form …
cell count is elevated (Figure 1). Since one-third of these cases of NM had normal cell counts, …

Marked elevation of cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count: An unusual case of Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis, differential diagnosis, and a brief review of …

J Menaker, IBK Martin, JM Hirshon - The Journal of emergency medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
meningitis, it is the cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count … over 50 years ago, bacterial
meningitis continues to cause … meningitis with an extremely high cerebrospinal white blood …

Corrected white blood cell count, cell index, and validation of a clinical model for the diagnosis of health care-associated ventriculitis and meningitis in adults with …

K Montes, H Jenkinson, OB Habib, Y Esquenazi… - Clinical Neurology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
cell (WBC) counts, CSF protein, and CSF glucose can be unreliable for the diagnosis of
HCAVM [4,5]. The use of CSF cell count … the blood, causing chemical meningitis [6,7]. Diagnosis …

Meningitis in elderly patients

S Delerme, S Castro, A Viallon… - European Journal of …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… In older adults, CSF white blood cells count, CSF protein, and CSF/blood glucose ratio were
different between NBM and BM. The causative species of BM were Streptococcus species …

Approach to diagnosis of meningitis Cerebrospinal fluid evaluation

JE Greenlee - Infectious disease clinics of North America, 1990 - Elsevier
… Lumbar puncture is performed in meningitis to obtain an accurate measurement of CSF
pressure and to collect quantities of CSF adequate for cell count, differential, determination …

Difficult and recurrent meningitis

L Ginsberg - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2004 - jnnp.bmj.com
… population in Vietnam: younger age, longer duration of illness, relatively lower blood white
cell count and CSF total white cell count, and lower percentage of neutrophils in the CSF. …

Differential diagnosis of acute meningitis: an analysis of the predictive value of initial observations

A Spanos, FE Harrell, DT Durack - Jama, 1989 - jamanetwork.com
… We analyzed data from the records of 422 patients with acute bacterial or viral meningitis. A
… Our aims were (1) to establish distributions of CSF and blood cell count parameters in both …

White blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and serum C-reactive protein in meningitis: magnitude of the response related to bacterial species

P Valmari - Infection, 1984 - Springer
… Summary: White blood cell count (WBC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and …
meningitis in order to compare the responses evoked by different bacteria. The age of the patients

Tuberculous meningitis in patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection

MP Dubé, PD Holtom, RA Larsen - The American journal of medicine, 1992 - Elsevier
… HIV-infected patients suggests that ultimate outcome in this population may be poor. A
relationship between low CD4+ cell counts and mortality in tuberculous meningitis has previously …

… and test characteristics of ancillary tests of cerebrospinal fluid for predicting acute bacterial meningitis in children with low white blood cell counts in cerebrospinal fluid

BK Bonsu, MB Harper - Academic emergency medicine, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
meningitis was identified in ten of 7,701 (0.1%) for the … meningitis, even among children
with a low WBC count in CSF. Key words: children; cerebrospinal fluid; white blood cell count; …