Why human color vision cannot reliably detect cerebrospinal fluid xanthochromia

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1295-1297

  Petzold, Axel ^a,b   Keir, Geoffrey ^b   Sharpe, Ted L ^c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VISION; XANTHOCHROMIA;

BILIRUBIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; PIGMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 20444407151     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000166344.75440.b9     Document Type: Article

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