Perils and pitfalls of lumbar puncture in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 351-358

  Holdgate, Anna ^a   Cuthbert, Karyn ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Headache; Lumbar puncture; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISKITIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 0034809163     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1035-6851.2001.00239.x     Document Type: Review

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