Effect on the white cell count of contaminating cerebrospinal fluid with blood.
Open Access
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 56 (5) , 400-401
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.56.5.400
Abstract
Retrospective analysis of heavily blood-stained cerebrospinal fluid shows that there are fewer white cells found in this fluid than would be expected by calculations using the peripheral blood red to white cell ratio. This phenomenon may disguise a true leucocytosis.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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