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

Table 2

Data from Wyler et al [3].

Postmortem interval	Number of cases	CSF cell count per cubic mm	CSF cell count-mean
0–6 hours	12	3–19	7.8
0–5 hours	11	3–45	17.9
12–24 hours	29	5–81	31.6