A clinical case of CSF analysis in severe trauma: pronounced neutrophilic pleocytosis in the Fuchs-Rosenthal chamber, positive protein tests, and cytogram.
Cytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid of a 70-year-old woman with diffuse traumatic brain injury. Diagnosis: fracture of a rib (ribs), sternum, and thoracic spine. 1,2 photos: CSF microscopy in the Fuchs-Rosenthal chamber with Samson’s reagent. 3 photo: physicochemical properties of CSF + biochemistry 4 photo: CSF staining according to Romanowsky-Giemsa.
Description and images kindly provided by Marina Tereshchenko, laboratory physician, Krasnodar.
Clinical case: CSF analysis in a 56-year-old woman with prolonged fever and positive meningeal symptoms. How to characterize the cells in the counting chamber?
Morphology of macrophages in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) smears. Diagnostic significance of phagocytosis, erythrophages, and siderophages in cytology.
Clinical case of flora smear microscopy: pronounced epithelial cell vacuolization, possible causes of degenerative changes and inflammation.
