Chemical Markers in Spinal Fluid for Tumours of the Central Nervous System (CNS)

  • S. B. Kaye
  • K. D. Bagshawe
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Abstract

Until recently the accurate diagnosis and assessment of malignant disease in the central nervous system (CNS) has been costly and time-consuming. The advent of computerised axial tomography (CT scanning) has resulted in a major change in policy in many neurological units, but the technique is not yet generally available. Moreover, and in common with most other methods of diagnosis, CT scanning is limited by its inability to reflect the degree of viability of the solid or fluid lesions which are visualised.

Keywords

Brain Metastasis Pituitary Tumour Primary Brain Tumour Cerebral Metastasis Triose Phosphate Isomerase 
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