PREDOMINANT CELLS SEEN IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID Flashcards
Normal Viral, tubercular and fungal meningitis
Lymphocytes
Monocytes
Multiple sclerosis
Lymphocytes
All stages of development may be found
Lymphocytes
Bacterial meningitis
Neutrophils
Early cases of viral, tubercular, fungal meningitis
Neutrophils
Cerebral hemorrhage
Neutrophils
Granules may be less prominent than in blood
Neutrophils
Cells disintegrate rapidly
Neutrophils
Found mixed with lymphocytes
Monocytes
RBCs in spinal fluid
Macrophages
Contrast media
Macrophages
May contain phagocytized RBCs appearing as empty vacuoles or ghost cells, hemosiderin granules and hematoidin crystals
Macrophages
Acute leukemia
Blast forms
Lymphoblasts, myeloblasts or monoblasts
Blast forms
Disseminated lymphomas
Lymphoma cells
Resemble lymphocytes with cleft nuclei
Lymphoma cells
Multiple sclerosis
Plasma cells
Lymphocyte reactions
Plasma cells
Traditional and classic forms see
Plasma cells
Diagnostic procedures
Ependymal, choroidal
Seen in clusters with distinct nuclei and distinct cell walls
Ependymal, choroidal and spindleshaped cells
Metastatic carcinomas
Malignant cells
Primary CNS carcinoma
Malignant cells
Malignant cells