Discitis and vertebral collapse are rare but serious complications of lumbar puncture.
Clinical profile, management and course of post lumbar puncture discitis in five patients is …

AW LIPMANN KESSEL, MBE, MC, FRCS (From St. Mary's Hospital, London. W. 2) The use
of lumbar puncture as a diagnostic and therapeutic measure is so common that any …

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TALBOTT, JH(1940) Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 66, 7. 2 BAINES, GA, BARCLAY, JA, and …

ALTHOUGH the technique and the roentgen findings in lumbar disk puncture are reported in
the literature, their clinical value has been stressed only briefly, and further clinical studies of …

We report two cases of severe disorders after spinal puncture with injection of hydrosoluble
material. The first case concerned a 36-year-old woman with intrathecal injection of 125 ml …

Herewith is presented the case of a syphilitic girl, aged fourteen, whose spine was first
punctured on June 20, 1936, without any untoward effects. On September 4, 1937, she was …

Although neurologists often evaluate the surgical complications of other physicians, they are
responsible for complications of the lumbar puncture, the quintessential neurologic …

Lumbar puncture in the hands of the expert is a relatively simple procedure with relatively
few hazards except the insidious postspinal headache. At the same time it is a procedure in …

The incidence of paraplegia following drain of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by lumbar puncure
below a spinal block is rare, and most of them occurred in spinal tumor. We report a case of …

sources of direct extension are a decubitus ulcer over the sacrum and a de-generated
mediastinal sarcoma. The original source may, on the other hand, be small and insignificant …