This is called the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF. A lumbar puncture can check for cancer cells or for infection in the CSF. Doctors remove some of the CSF to test for cancer cells. They use a needle to ...

Specifically, the patient's obesity and thick subcutaneous fat layer in the lumbar region increased the length of the puncture needle's path to the target site, making it more prone to deviation from ...

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

We hypothesize that an instrumented needle-holder could help operators recognize pleural puncture and improve depth control, and we present a puncture-detection experiment that contributes toward this ...

These changes are reflected in the levels of proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, so a lumbar puncture can indicate whether the brain is affected by Alzheimer’s disease. A special needle is used to ...

The needle puncture and path of the needle was further confirmed in ... behaviors attributed to fear; and in one dog the lumbar epidural was performed between L2 and L3, due to a technical difficulty ...

Her goal was to provide an improved training tool for junior doctors learning to perform lumbar punctures, a common procedure where a needle must be inserted between the vertebrae of the lower spine. ...