Sentence examples for traumatic puncture from inspiring English sources

Quantification of red blood cell concentrations in CSF may help to interpret certain diagnostic constellations and may result from subarachnoid haemorrhage, surgical procedures or contamination due to traumatic puncture.

If traumatic puncture, consider the possibility of initiating prophylaxis after 24 h.

Blood samples were obtained by traumatic puncture of the antecubital vein, using a 20-gauge needle, and placed into siliconized vacutainer tubes containing 0.129 mol/L trisodium citrate (from Becton and Dickinson France) as anticoagulant, in a ratio of nine parts of blood to one part of citrate.

The objective of this study is to determine if visual and tactile inspection of the spine is useful in the prediction of a difficult or traumatic lumbar puncture (LP).

Adjustment of WBC counts in the setting of a traumatic lumbar puncture does not aid in the diagnosis of bacterial and fungal meningitis in neonates.

In the case of a traumatic lumbar puncture, the anti-JEV IgM detected in CSF may be from blood contamination.

Objectives To describe the findings in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with acute headache that could distinguish subarachnoid hemorrhage from the effects of a traumatic lumbar puncture.

It is difficult to identify a causal link between the disease and the vaccination, as the source of positive CSF JEV IgM antibodies might be natural JEV infection or possibly due to a traumatic lumbar puncture.

The virus was detected in CSF of an infant 3 months of age with IAAE (8 ); however, the virus may have been found in CSF because of the presence of blood from a traumatic lumbar puncture.

This patient presented four and a half hours after the onset of headache, had blood in the cerebrospinal fluid (632 000×10/L in the fourth tube) attributed to a traumatic lumbar puncture by a neurosurgical trainee, and was found to have an aneurysm on follow-up magnetic resonance imaging angiogram five days later.

We calculated sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of unadjusted and adjusted CSF white blood cell counts for predicting meningitis in neonates with traumatic lumbar punctures.Of 6374 lumbar punctures, 2519 (39.5%) were traumatic.