The need to repeat lumbar puncture
| dc.contributor.author | Soskolne, E. I. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Kuhn, S. H. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Der Merwe P. L. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Keet, M. P. | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-18T14:57:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-03-18T14:57:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1977 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Soskolne, E. I., et al. 1977. The need to repeat lumbar puncture. South African Medical Journal, 51(12):395-396. | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.za | |
| dc.description.abstract | 4 Patients with bacterial meningitis are reported. On initial examination, 1 patient had a slightly abnormal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and in the other 3 patients, the CSF was completely normal. An obviously purulent CSF was obtained when lumbar puncture was repeated 14 to 48 hr later. All 4 patients presented initially with pyrexia, and either neck stiffness or convulsions. In 3 of the 4 patients, a cause for pyrexia was found on initial examination but lumbar punctures were done for neck stiffness of convulsions to exclude meningitis. The problems and the need to repeat a lumbar puncture, as well as the importance of blood cultures in a patient with suspected meningitis, are discussed. The fact that a normal specimen of CSF does not exclude meningitis is stressed. | |
| dc.description.version | Publisher’s version | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Soskolne, E. I., et al. 1977. The need to repeat lumbar puncture. South African Medical Journal, 51(12):395-396 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2078-5135 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0256-9574 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/7710 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Health & Medical Publishing Group | |
| dc.rights.holder | South African Medical Journal | |
| dc.subject | Spine -- Puncture | |
| dc.subject | Meningitis | |
| dc.subject | Meningitis -- Diagnosis | |
| dc.subject | Meningitis in children | |
| dc.title | The need to repeat lumbar puncture | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article |
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