Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a laboratory test to examine a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This fluid is a clear, watery liquid that protects the central nervous system from injury and cushions it from the...

The entire surface of the central nervous system is bathed by a clear, colorless fluid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The CSF is contained within a system of fluid-filled cavities called ventricles. It serves to both cushion the brain and spinal...

(CSF) The fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Cerebrospinal fluid is produced by cells of the CHOROID PLEXUS which secrete it into the cerebral VENTRICLES. CSF circulatcs through the ventricles and then into the subarachnoid space surrounding...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), Liquor cerebrospinalis, is a clear bodily fluid that occupies the subarachnoid space and the ventricular system around and inside the brain. More specifically the CSF occupies the space between the arachnoid mater (the middle...

Since the first descriptions of nontraumatic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks of the temporal bone (in the French literature in 18971) and via the nasal passages (in the British literature in 18992), the term "spontaneous CSF leak" has been used extensively in the literature. However,...

Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has an important role to play in the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) (1). Computed tomography, the first line of investigation for suspected SAH, shows a decrease in diagnostic accuracy as the time interval between the suspected hemorrhage and...

She struggled through the murder of her father, homelessness and abandonment. Now the 12-year-old Cambodian girl is recovering after surgeons here successfully removed a lemon-size tumor from beneath her brain.Buntheep Chun, a wisp of a girl with dark eyes, a small voice and a slight...