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This medical condition usually requires the surgical placement of a shunt system to divert cerebrospinal fluid to another part of the body.
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His parents were told to watch for a runny nose - a sign of leaking spinal fluid from the brain.
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Complications included cerebrospinal fluid fistula in 1 case, mild facial paresis in 2, facial numbness in 6 and labial herpes in 11.
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Practitioners claim that gently manipulating the bones of the cranium can correct the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, by restoring the skull to its natural shape.
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This diagnosis can be established with certainty only by testing the cerebrospinal fluid.
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MR cerebrospinal fluid imaging technique is non - radiating and convenient.
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“We found that if we just transplanted motor neurons into the spinal cord and did nothing else, then the surrounding neighborhood in the spinal cord—the white matter surrounding the spinal fluid, which is full of other, healthy myelinated axons—would see these motor neurons as foreign and reject them,” Kerr says.
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The appearance of clear cerebrospinal fluid in the needle hub confirmed correct placement of the needle in the lateral cerebral ventricle.
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One of the 18 study patients had a cerebral spinal fluid leak, which was repaired endoscopically.
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If treatment is started prior to the lumbar puncture it may be difficult to grow the bacteria from the spinal fluid and confirm the diagnosis.
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Occasionally a deficiency in the osseous material of the cranium or an abnormal dilatation of the fontanelles gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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They are known as (1) _meningocele_, which consists of a protrusion of a cul-de-sac of the arachno-pial membrane, containing cerebro-spinal fluid; (2) _encephalocele_, in which a portion of the brain is protruded in addition to the membranes; and (3) _hydrencephalocele_, in which the protruded portion of brain includes a part of one of the ventricles.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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The _normal cerebro-spinal fluid_ is clear and colourless, has a specific gravity of 1004-1008, and contains a trace of serum globulin and albumose, some chlorides, and a substance which reduces Fehling's solution.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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Lateral to the dentate gyrus, the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle has been opened to expose its choroid plexus, which is involved in the production of cerebrospinal fluid.
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The appearance of clear cerebrospinal fluid in the needle hub confirmed correct placement of the needle in the lateral cerebral ventricle.
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Experts found in the microbiology report that baby Harry's spinal fluid and lungs were riddled with the staphylococcus aureus bacteria, suggesting he had a viral infection.
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Acute hydrocephalus due to sudden obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid pathways by an intracranial mass also causes sudden headache.
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An analysis of cerebrospinal fluid samples was 90 per cent accurate at distinguishing the two groups of patients.
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The appearance of clear cerebrospinal fluid in the needle hub confirmed correct placement of the needle in the lateral cerebral ventricle.
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The next morning, the scientists analysed the volunteers' cerebrospinal fluid for proteins.
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The first patients in the trial have had it injected it into their spinal fluid.
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To monitor and relieve cerebrospinal fluid pressure for patients with pseudotumor
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Six weeks later, he gave the boy four courses of high-dose methotrexate, daily mercaptopurine, and four triple-drug treatments into the spinal fluid.
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I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine which holds in spinal fluid.
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Shortly before he left, however, a call from an excited microbiologist confirmed the presence of Gram negative diplococci in both blood and cerebrospinal fluid culture.
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The process is at first attended with a copious effusion of cerebro-spinal fluid into the arachno-pial space and into the ventricles (_serous lepto-meningitis_), but this fluid tends to become purulent, the pus forming in a thin layer over the surface of the brain, and in the sulci between the convolutions (_purulent lepto-meningitis_).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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Clinical stabilization and effective B-lymphocyte depletion in the cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood of a patient with fulminant relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
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I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine which holds in spinal fluid.
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I knew it was cerebrospinal fluid.
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It could signal normal pressure hydrocephalus, in which pockets in the brain swell with too much spinal fluid.
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This diagnosis can be established with certainty only by testing the cerebrospinal fluid.
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Cloudy spinal fluid may indicate infection because of increased cells and proteins suspended in the fluid.
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A patch using a piece of cow heart would be sewn over the expanded opening; this would give the brain more room inside the skull, thereby restoring the proper flow of spinal fluid, eliminating the syrinx and, if all went well, stopping her headaches.
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Health workers routinely collect spinal fluid when examining someone who is suspected of having meningitis.
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This may result in a blockage of the cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord.
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These include metabolite measurements for plasma, urine and cerebrospinal fluid amino acids using ion exchange chromatography, urine organic acids using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, and total and free carnitine levels and quantitative acylcarnitine profiles using electrospray tandem mass spectrometry.
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Researchers used ultrasensitive technology to check spinal fluid for the brain condition, which gives characteristic shakes.
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I pass a fine needle into that spinal fluid and deposit a combination of a local anaesthetic and a painkiller, morphine.
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These parts of the body are treated by injection into the spinal fluid.
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Cerebrospinal fluid specimens collected from Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Katsina states have tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A by latex test and/or culture.
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The inevitable dehydration that this involves causes the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds and cushions the brain to dry up, allowing the brain to rattle around inside the skull like a conker in a biscuit tin.
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gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele (Fig. 96).
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Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from the lumbar spinal taps or the intrathecal catheter.
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Between the pia and arachnoid membranes is the subarachnoid space, in which the cerebrospinal fluid circulates.
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Both agents cross into the cerebrospinal fluid in equipotent amounts
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The disorder is characterized clinically by amyotrophy and segmented sensory loss and pathologically by cavitation of central parts of the spinal canal that results in changes in direction and freedom of flow of cerebral spinal fluid.
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Cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of ethionamide in children with tuberculous meningitis.
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The space between these layers -- the _sub-arachnoid space_ -- is traversed by a network of fine fibrous strands, in the meshes of which the cerebro-spinal fluid circulates.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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After 2 h of equilibration the medial perforant path was stimulated and the evoked potentials in the dentate gyrus were recorded in the molecular layer above the upper blade by using a glass capillary microelectrode filled with artificial cerebrospinal fluid
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Patients with treatment failure should be tested for HIV infection and evaluated for neurosyphilis with a cerebrospinal fluid examination.
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Does skull bottom fracture cause fracture of clavicle of leakage of cerebrospinal fluid bazoo does the activity suffer those who be restricted to form to disable now how much is grade?
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This diagnosis can be established with certainty only by testing the cerebrospinal fluid.
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Leusen initiated the modern investigation of central chemoreception in 1950, using perfusion of the cerebral ventricles with artificial cerebrospinal fluid in anesthetized dogs.
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Although it differs in its chemical constitution from true lymph, the cerebro-spinal fluid seems to functionate as lymph, in addition to acting as a lubricating agent, and playing a part in regulating the vascular supply of the brain.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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The absorption of the cerebrospinal fluid is a dual process, being chiefly a rapid drainage through the arachnoid villi into the great dural sinuses, and, in small part, a slow escape into the true lymphatic vessels, by way of an abundant but indirect perineural course.
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Using a technology called proteomics, the researchers examined 2,000 proteins found in the spinal fluid of 34 people who died with autopsy-proven Alzheimer's, comparing it with the spinal fluid of 34 non-demented people.
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Another bacterium that has been implicated in MS is Chlamydophila pneumoniae; it or its DNA has been found in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients by several research laboratories, with one study finding that the oligoclonal bands of 14 of the 17 MS patients studied consisted largely of antibodies to Chlamydophila antigens.
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The paraclinical (or laboratory) tests may include neuroimaging, with MRI or CF scanning, evoked potential studies, or CSF (cerebrospinal fluid), analysis.
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The researchers used a technique called voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to classify areas of brain tissue in their MRI images as grey matter, white matter, or cerebro-spinal fluid, and to compare the volume of each tissue at different stages of learning.
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In the latter conditions, the cerebrospinal fluid has a cell count ranging from only a few to hundreds.
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Brain shift occurs when the dura is opened, cerebrospinal fluid leaks out, and the brain either shrinks or swells.
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These treatments include hyperventilation, cerebrospinal fluid drainage, infusion of mannitol, hypothermia, barbiturates, and decompressive craniotomy.
