No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2004 ASCO Annual Meeting. This abstract does not include a full text component.

Despite the mortality and long-term sequelae occurring secondary to neonatal meningitis, past studies have shown that lumbar punctures (LPs) are not done in neonates as often as they should be. This ...

In the blood, lipoproteins ferry cholesterol and other lipids to cells throughout the body. In the cerebrospinal fluid, they may do the same, but because they are 200-fold more dilute there, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Roughly 30% of hospital admissions for encephalitis required repeat lumbar punctures. Diagnostic uncertainty is ...

Post-dural puncture headaches often develop within a few days of a lumbar puncture (spinal tap). They usually go away on their own within a week or two, but if they persist, a doctor might recommend ...

Leptomeningeal metastases (LM) occur when cancerous cells metastasize or spread to the leptomeninges, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), or both. The meninges are thin layers of tissue surrounding and ...