Lumbar puncture in adult bacterial meningitis: Time to reconsider guidelines

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7893, 2013, Pages

  Glimaker, Martin ^a   Lindquist, Lars ^a   Sjölin, Jan ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 84873343637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f361     Document Type: Letter

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