The diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid lactate for post-neurosurgical bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Bacterial meningitis is not rare in post-neurosurgical patients. If patients are not treated promptly, the mortality rate can reach 20 to 50 %. The concentration of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate has been reported to be helpful in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis; however, no sys...

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Autores principales: Xiao, Xiong, Zhang, Yang, Zhang, Liwei, Kang, Peng, Ji, Nan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1818-2

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