Recommendations for cerebrospinal fluid cytology. A review article

Abstract

The discription of cytological findings in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is very inconsistent in the literature since no generally recognized uniform classification of these findings has been proposed to date. The need for developing such a classification systém becomes quite obvious against the background of renaissance CSF cytology in currently experiencing in our country.

A precondition sine qua non for developing a uniform classification systém is its general applicability and recognition as well as a capacity to establish, using precisely formulated conclusions, the aetiological diagnosis, something quite impossible withg today's terminology.

Keywords

• CSF cytology
• classification of CSF cytological findings
• monocyte-macrophagic systém
• monoclonal antibodies
• immuno-cytology
• tumorous cells
• lipo-phages
• inter-meningeal haemmorrhage