Lumbar Puncture: Techniques, Complications and CSF Analyses

Lumbar puncture (LP) is one of the well-known ancillary procedures in clinical neurology performed for a variety of functions such as spinal anesthesia, intrathecal administration of drugs, myelography, obtaining cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and measuring pressure since more than 100 years ago. The question that who was really the discoverer of LP is still under debate. Most authors assume that it was Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842-1922) a German internist who was introduced the procedure to medicine in 1891, however, some authors mentioned the American neurologist James Leonard Corning (1855-1923) as the first one who performed LP using birds quills in 1885 (Frederiks et al., 1997; Dakka et al., 2011).

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  2012

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• Publication date

  2012-03-16

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.5772/29511
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