The Cerebrospinal Fluid /
For centuries the great minds of medical science puzzled over the importance of the cerebrospinal fluid. As far back as Hippocrates, it was thought that this "phlegm" that flooded the intracranial contents had pathological significance. However, not until the late 1800s, when Quincke intro...
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Boston, MA :
Springer US,
1989
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Brief history of the understanding of cerebrospinal fluid
- 2. Anatomic and physiologic aspects of the cerebrospinal fluid space
- 3. Abnormalities of cerebrospinal fluid production and flow and hydrocephalus
- 4. Collecting cerebrospinal fluid
- 5. The medical uses of injection into the cerebrospinal fluid space (intrathecal and intraventricular injection)
- 6. Cerebrospinal fluid infections
- 7. Nonimmunoglobulin proteins in human cerebrospinal fluid
- 8. Human cerebrospinal fluid immunology
- 9. Light microscopic cytology of cerebrospinal fluid
- 10. The cytology of cerebrospinal fluid: Methods and normal constituents
- 11. Cytopathology of the cerebrospinal fluid
- Color Plates
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