Review Article
Postmortem Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis: A Marker of Inflammation or Postmortem Artifact?
Table 4
Data from Osuna et al [
10].
| Diagnostic group | Number of cases | Survival time in hours, mean (SD) | Postmortem interval in hours, mean (SD) | CSF protein in g/L, range (median) |
| Head trauma | 11 | 0.9 (0.8) | 51.5 (18.8) | 2.8–42.4 (14) | Hypoxia | 7 | 1.0 (1.0) | 49.7 (23.3) | 2.4–28.5 (7) | Sudden cardiac death | 7 | 0.0 (0.0) | 41.1 (26.9) | 0.5–6.1 (2) | Other | 9 | 2.0 (1.7) | 51.2 (30.5) | 1.2–9.2 (6) |
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