Myelitis due to Coccidioidomycosis in an Immunocompetent Patient by Tetyana Vaysman, Sean Villaflores, Carlyn Estrella, Suman Radhakrishna, Antonio Liu

“…Upon investigation with lumbar puncture, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture, and coccidioidal antibody studies, the patient was found to have acute coccidioidomycosis. …”
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Rare Association of Anti-Hu Antibody Positive Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndrome and Transitional Cell Bladder Carcinoma by S. Lukacs, N. Szabo, S. Woodhams

“…The diagnosis of PEM and SSN was supported by MRI and lumbar puncture results. A superficial bladder TCC was demonstrated on CT and subsequently confirmed on histology. …”
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A Case of Early Disseminated Neurological Lyme Disease Followed by Atypical Cutaneous Manifestations by Vamsi Kantamaneni, Vikas Sunder, Mohammad Bilal, Scott Vargo

“…An infectious work-up including lumbar puncture was negative. She was transferred to our tertiary care hospital. …”
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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy: An Unusual Consequence of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome—Case Report and Literature Review by Timothy R. Larsen, Dritan Dragu, Michael Williams

“…CT head was negative. Lumbar puncture was unremarkable. Brain MRI revealed increased T2 signal in the medial thalamus bilaterally. …”
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Optic Nerve Sonography in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Pseudopapilledema and Raised Intracranial Pressure: A Cross-Sectional Study by Masoud Mehrpour, Fatemeh Oliaee Torshizi, Shooka Esmaeeli, Salameh Taghipour, Sahar Abdollahi

“…This was a cross-sectional study in which patients with optic nerve head swelling were referred for LP exam after optic nerve head swelling diagnosis confirmation and having normal brain imaging (CT scan). Before LP (lumbar puncture) exam the patients were referred for optic nerve ultrasound test of both eyes. …”
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Literature review of spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage: risk factors, diagnostic features, and complications (Part I) by J. Grigaitė, G. Rutkauskaitė, L. Piliponis, J. Ščerbak, D. Jatužis, J. Valaikienė

“…Computed tomography (CT) and/or lumbar puncture are the main instrumental studies supporting the diagnosis of SAH, while digital subtraction angiography is considered the gold standard in the diagnosis of intracranial aneurysms. …”
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Gradenigo’s Syndrome and Bacterial Meningitis in a Patient with a Petrous Apex Cholesterol Granuloma by Jacqueline Hodges, Julie Matsumoto, Nicholas Jaeger, Brian Wispelwey

“…He was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis by lumbar puncture and treated with empiric antibiotics, with CSF eventually revealing nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. …”
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers and Prediction of Conversion in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: 4-Year Follow-Up in a Routine Clinical Setting by Alessia Lanari, Lucilla Parnetti

“…We identified 55 patients with MCI among the consecutive patients, referred from 2001 to 2003 to our Memory Clinic for cognitive disorders, who underwent a complete diagnostic assessment, including lumbar puncture (n = 273). At the end of the follow-up, 31 MCI patients (56%) did not progress to dementia (stable MCI), while 24 (44%) developed a dementia condition. …”
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Disseminated tuberculosis masquerading as a psychiatric illness—A case report by Shalini Bhaskar, Mimi N. M. Noh

“…She, however, had elevated C-reactive protein, ESR, and raised CSF opening pressure on lumbar puncture. The CSF cell counts, biochemistry, and cultures were within normal limits. …”
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Spinal ischemia: the rehabilitation potential. А clinical case by Svetlana I. Tolstaya, Vladimir V. Belopasov, Evgeny V. Chechukhin

“…The reasons for its development can include vascular malfomations, spinal stroke, extra- and intramedullary tumors, compression of the spinal cord in cases of vertebral fractures, intervertebral disc herniations, stenosis of the spinal canal at the cervical segment, medical manipulations and impaired segmental circulation during the anesthesia, lumbar puncture and surgical interventions. CLINICAL CASE DESCRIPTION: The presented clinical observation provides a description of the iatrogenic complication that has developed in a patient aged 52 years after discectomy and installation of the disc prosthesis due to the development of disco-radicular and spinal conflict, resulting due to the С5/С6 dorsomedial intervertebral hernia, the clinical manifestations of which, besides pain, included weakness in the left upper limb, causally related to the focus of intramedullary ischemia at the unilateral side. …”
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Adalimumab-induced optic neuropathy in a patient with Behçet’s syndrome by Sofia Miranda, Daniel Calado, Joana Rua, Fernando Salvador

“…The initial bloodwork showed no elevated inflammatory markers. A lumbar puncture showed a normal cerebrospinal fluid composition. …”
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False-Negative CSF Cryptococcal Antigen with Cryptococcus gattii Meningoencephalitis in Southeastern United States: A Case Report and Literature Review by Shawn Esperti, Austen Stoelting, Andrew Mangano, Dveet Patel, Jilian Sansbury, Robert Sherertz

“…Head CT was negative. Lumbar puncture (LP) revealed normal glucose, elevated protein, and lymphocytosis. …”
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A Rare Case of Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Child with a Congenital Heart Disease by Bhim Gopal Dhoubhadel, Ujjwal Laghu, Raju Poudel, Konosuke Morimoto, Koya Ariyoshi

“…On examination, she had a pansystolic murmur and meningeal signs. Lumbar puncture was done; opening pressure was high (27 cm H2O) and white blood cell (WBC) count in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was slightly high. …”
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Challenges in Diagnosis and Management of Altered Mental Status in the Setting of Urosepsis and Hydrocephalus Secondary to an Occlusive Cyst of the Fourth Ventricle: A Case Report by Matthew Van Ligten, Miles Hudson, Jonathon J. Parker, Wayne A. Martini

“…The acute management involved empirical antibiotic therapy for associated sepsis, followed by the placement of an external ventricular drain for cerebrospinal fluid diversion and sampling, including cytology and cell counts, given the concern for tonsillar herniation with a lumbar puncture. Cine MRI and CT cisternogram demonstrated a cyst filling the volume of the fourth ventricle. …”
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HIV-Associated Vacuolar Myelopathy and HIV-Associated Dementia as the Initial Manifestation of HIV/AIDS by Natalia Wuliji, Matthew J. Mandell, Jason M. Lunt, Adam Merando

“…MRI-brain was notable for nonspecific volume loss and diffusely increased T2 signal throughout the supratentorial white matter. Lumbar puncture showed isolated lymphocytic pleocytosis with all other CSF testing unremarkable. …”
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Textural analysis and artificial intelligence as decision support tools in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis – a systematic review by Filip Orzan, Ştefania D. Iancu, Laura Dioşan, Zoltán Bálint

“…IntroductionMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is conventionally used for the detection and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), often complemented by lumbar puncture—a highly invasive method—to validate the diagnosis. …”
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Diplopia, Convergent Strabismus, and Eye Abduction Palsy in a 12-Year-Old Boy with Autoimmune Thyroiditis by Pedro Marques, Sandra Jacinto, Maria do Carmo Pinto, Catarina Limbert, Lurdes Lopes

“…Laboratorial evaluation revealed elevated free thyroxine level (1.05 ng/dL [0.65–1.01]) and low TSH, without other alterations. Lumbar puncture was performed and CSF opening pressure was 24 cm H2O with normal composition. …”
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IgG4-Related Ophthalmic Disease Presenting as Meningitis and Panuveitis by Maria A. Mavrommatis, Sarah A. Avila, Richard France

“…A 35-year-old male with no prior ophthalmic history presented with headaches, altered mental status, and fever of unknown origin. A lumbar puncture (LP) revealed an elevated white count with lymphocytic predominance, confirming a suspected meningitis. …”
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A case report of fatal familial insomnia with cerebrospinal fluid leukocytosis during the COVID-19 epidemic and review of the literature by Zheng Wang, Yueqi Huang, Shuqi Wang, Jiefang Chen, Gesang Meiduo, Man Jin, Xiaoying Zhang

“…Though the patient was treated with anti-infection and immunotherapy, the symptoms were not relieved. A lumbar puncture was performed again, and it was found that the total Tau protein in the cerebrospinal fluid was elevated, and PET results showed that brain metabolism decreased. …”
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Antithrombin III deficiency and idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a case report by Mansoureh Togha, Yousef Mokary, Elham Jafari

“…The results of magnetic resonance venography and cerebrospinal fluid analysis were also normal, except for an opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure of 600 mm H2O during the lumbar puncture. Rheumatologic and endocrine disorders were ruled out on the basis of clinical assessment and laboratory tests. …”
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