Lumbar puncture
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/chpams38302
Nova Scotia Health Authority. Cancer Care Program.
Halifax, NS:
Nova Scotia Health Authority
, 2024.
- Pamphlet Number
- 4073
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
This test is sometimes called a spinal tap. There is a space around your spinal cord that is filled with fluid. In a lumbar puncture, a small amount of fluid is taken from this space. This pamphlet explains how the test is done and what will happen after the test. A list of symptoms that need medical attention is included.
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
- Corporate Author
- Nova Scotia Health Authority. Cancer Care Program
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Date of Publication
- 2024
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document ([2] p.) : digital, PDF file
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Lumbar puncture
- Neoplasms - diagnosis
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Spine--Puncture
- Cancer--Diagnosis
- Abstract
- This test is sometimes called a spinal tap. There is a space around your spinal cord that is filled with fluid. In a lumbar puncture, a small amount of fluid is taken from this space. This pamphlet explains how the test is done and what will happen after the test. A list of symptoms that need medical attention is included.
- Responsibility
- Prepared by: Nova Scotia Health Cancer Care Program
- Pamphlet Number
- 4073
