Title: [Cerebrospinal fluid cytology in acute leukemias. (Use of cytocentrifugation for blast cell identification)].
Abstract: The authors studied cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in 51 patients with malignant blood diseases. 136 assays were performed over a three month period. In children, two technics were used; in the first case, smears were done with cells obtained through centrifugation; in the second case, CSF was directly thrown on glass slides in a special cytocentrifuge. Only the latter was performed for adults. In each case, the results of the cytological analysis were compared with those of cyto-chemical assay and clinical status.
Publication Year: 1975
Publication Date: 1975-11-10
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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