Analysis of reasons impairing the quality of cerebrospinal fluid cell slide centrifugal sedimentation examination method and its preventive measures

Abstract

It is well known that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell slide centrifugal sedimentation examination method is a very important technique for the etiological diagnosis of many central nervous system (CNS) diseases, especially for infectious diseases, leukemia and meningeal carcinomatosis, etc. The high quality of CSF cell collection and staining technique is the first and most important step of this cytological examination. However, there are a number of subjective and objective impairing factors influencing its quality, especially for younger technicians in practical condition. This article presents mainly the impairing factors and its preventive mersures for colleagues and suggestion. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2018.07.001

Keywords

• Cerebrospinal fluid
• Cytological techniques
• Centrifugation
• Precipitation
• Review