Consensus guidelines for lumbar puncture in patients with neurological diseases

Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages 111-126

  Engelborghs, Sebastiaan ^a,b   Niemantsverdriet, Ellis ^a   Struyfs, Hanne ^a   Blennow, Kaj ^c   Brouns, Raf ^d   Comabella, Manuel ^e   Dujmovic, Irena ^f   van der Flier, Wiesje ^g   Frölich, Lutz ^h   Galimberti, Daniela ⁱ   Gnanapavan, Sharmilee ^j   Hemmer, Bernhard ^k,l   Hoff, Erik ^m   Hort, Jakub ^n,o   Iacobaeus, Ellen ^p   Ingelsson, Martin ^q   Jan de Jong, Frank ^r   Jonsson, Michael ^s   Khalil, Michael ^t   Kuhle, Jens ^u   Lleó, Alberto ^v,w   de Mendonça, Alexandre ^x   Molinuevo, José Luis ^y   Nagels, Guy ^d,z,aa   Paquet, Claire ^ab   Parnetti, Lucilla ^ac   Roks, Gerwin ^ad   Rosa Neto, Pedro ^ae   Scheltens, Philip ^g   Skårsgard, Constance ^af   Stomrud, Erik ^ag   Tumani, Hayrettin ^ah   Visser, Pieter Jelle ^ai,aj   Wallin, Anders ^s   Winblad, Bengt ^ak   Zetterberg, Henrik ^c,al   Duits, Flora ^g   Teunissen, Charlotte E ^ai   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Memory Clinic   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^j QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^l Technische Universität München Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

^m Zuyderland Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

ⁿ CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^o ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^p KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^q UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^r ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^s SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^t MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^u UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^v HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^w CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^x INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^y HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^aa National MS Center Melsbroek   (Belgium)

^ab UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^ad Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^ae MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^af KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^ag LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^ai VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^aj MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ak KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^al UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Back pain; Cerebrospinal fluid; Consensus guidelines; Evidence based guidelines; Headache; Lumbar puncture; Post LP complications

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

AGE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACKACHE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLICATION; CONSENSUS GUIDELINE; DESIGN OF THE NEEDLE; DIAMETER OF THE NEEDLE; FEAR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF THE NEEDLE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEEDLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL HEMORRHAGE; STANDARD; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOSIS; TOLERABILITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 85020024963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23528729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dadm.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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