ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2019
When Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Assessment Misleads: Basal Meningitis and the Importance of Lumbar Puncture Sampling.
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- Inflammatory Markers in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Hydrocephalus: A Systematic Literature Review.Disease markers · 2021Pooled it
- [Beyond the puncture site: discordance between ventricular and lumbar CSF in paediatric tuberculous meningitis].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2025Article
- Normal opening pressure lumbar puncture in cryptococcal meningitis complicated by a cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Comparative study on the sensitivity of lumbar puncture and external ventricular drainage cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of central nervous system infections after craniotomy.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- A teenage girl with altered mental status and paraparesis.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2024Article
- Recommendations for reproducibility of cerebrospinal fluid extracellular vesicle studies.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2024Review
- Cerebrospinal Fluid-Basic Concepts Review.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Spatial and temporal variation of routine parameters: pitfalls in the cerebrospinal fluid analysis in central nervous system infections.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2022Review
- Cerebrospinal fluid osmolality cannot predict development or surgical outcome of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.Fluids and barriers of the CNS · 2022Article
- Comparison of Lumbar and Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Meningitis.The Neurohospitalist · 2022Article
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- Cryptococcus meningitis mimicking cerebral septic emboli, a case report series demonstrating injection drug use as a risk factor for development of disseminated disease.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- The immune landscape of cerebrospinal fluid across brain malignancies.Neuro-oncology advancesReview
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Abstract
The diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) infection relies upon analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). We present 4 cases of CNS infections associated with basal meningitis and hydrocephalus with normal ventricular CSF but grossly abnormal lumbar CSF. We discuss CSF ventricular-lumbar composition gradients and putative pathophysiological mechanisms and highlight clinical clues for clinicians.
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