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NEUROLOGY 1978;28:616
© 1978 American Academy of Neurology

Lateral cervical puncture

An alternative to lumbar puncture

JUSTIN A. ZIVIN, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California.

As an alternative to lumbar puncture for acquisition of cerebrospinal fluid, lateral cervical puncture is simple to perform and appears to have less potential for major complications than suboc cipital puncture. A small number of normal cerebrospinal fluid samples from lateral cervical puncture were analyzed and were within the normal range of fluid obtained by lumbar puncture.

Dr Zivin's address IS Department of Neurology, University of California. San Francisco, 3rd and Parnassus, San Francisco, CA 94143.

Accepted for publication April 1977.






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