Postmortem Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis: A Marker of Inflammation or Postmortem Artifact?

Table 1

Data from Platt et al [2].

CASES	Number of cases	Age range	Postmortem interval; (mean)	CSF cell count per cubic mm, range; (mean)
SIDS	26	5 weeks–5 months	2–28 hours (16.1)	37–3250 (647)
Hospital paediatric gp.	24	1 day–16 years	1.5–22 hours (10.58)	0–593 (141)
Adults	14	30–74 years	5–48 hours (15.14)	1–108 (28)