Automated Cell Counting in CSF Diagnostics Revisited-Friend or Foe?

Axel Haarmann, Jörg Schubert, Udo Steigerwald, Michael K Schuhmann

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

CSF Leukocytes Transiently Increase Before Onset of Huntington Disease in Association With a Stage-Specific CSF Cytokine/Chemokine Pattern.Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation · 2026
Observational

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Axel HaarmannDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5597-6225

Jörg SchubertDivision of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.

Udo SteigerwaldDivision of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.

Michael K SchuhmannDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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automated cell countingcerebrospinal fluidCSF diagnosticsFuchs–Rosenthal counting chamberSysmex XN-9000

Identifiers

PMID40428195

DOI10.3390/diagnostics15101202

PMCPMC12109621

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