Table 2 Summary of CSF findings by diagnosis category
From: Cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis level as a diagnostic predictor? A cross-sectional study
Diagnosis category | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CNS infection (n = 106) | Infection outside CNS (n = 20) | Non-infectious neurological diseases (n = 79) | Malignancy, all foci (n = 23) | Other (n = 34) | Total (n = 262) | |||||||
CSF leukocytes/μla | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] |
6–10 | 11 (10.4) | 8.1 | 10 (50.0) | 7.3 | 32 (40.5) | 7.3 | 8 (34.8) | 7.4 | 14 (41.2) | 7.2 | 75 (28.6) | 7.4 |
>10–50 | 23 (21.7) | 29.3 | 9 (45.0) | 22.9 | 34 (43.0) | 20.2 | 11 (47.8) | 21.9 | 14 (41.2) | 20.1 | 91 (34.7) | 23.0 |
>50–100 | 8 (7.6) | 84.0 | 3 (3.8) | 66 | 2 (8.7) | 62.5 | 5 (14.7) | 69.8 | 18 (6.9) | 74.7 | ||
>100–200 | 17 (16.0) | 135.0 | 6 (7.6) | 138 | 1 (2.9) | 159 | 24 (9.2) | 136.8 | ||||
>200–400 | 13 (12.3) | 266.4 | 1 (5.0) | 221 | 2 (2.5) | 247.5 | 1 (4.4) | 347 | 17 (6.5) | 266.2 | ||
>400–600 | 12 (11.3) | 524.6 | 1 (1.3) | 537 | 13 (5.0) | 525.5 | ||||||
>600–800 | 2 (1.9) | 744 | 2 (0.8) | 744 | ||||||||
>800–1000 | 3 (2.8) | 896 | 3 (1.2) | 896 | ||||||||
>1000 | 17 (16.0) | 6041.2 | 1 (1.3) | 2015 | 1 (4.4) | 1980 | 19 (7.3) | 5615.5 | ||||
Total | 106 (100.0) | 1135.5** | 20 (100.0) | 25.0* | 79 (100.0) | 63.2** | 23 (100.0) | 119.7 | 34 (100.0) | 26.2* | 262 (100.0) | 494.3 |
CSF protein g/la | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] | n (%) | [mean] |
<0.2 | 1 (1.3) | 0.0 | 1 (2.9) | 0.0 | 2 (0.8) | 0.0 | ||||||
0.2–0.4 | 18 (17.0) | 0.4 | 12 (60.0) | 0.3 | 34 (43.0) | 0.3 | 8 (34.8) | 0.3 | 11 (32.4) | 0.4 | 83 (31.7) | 0.3 |
0.41–1.11 | 50 (47.2) | 0.7 | 8 (40.0) | 0.8 | 36 (45.6) | 0.7 | 10 (43.5) | 0.6 | 18 (52.9) | 0.6 | 122 (46.6) | 0.7 |
>1.11 | 38 (35.9) | 2.8 | 8 (10.1) | 2.5 | 5 (21.7) | 2.9 | 4 (11.8) | 2.6 | 55 (21.0) | 2.8 | ||
Total | 106 (100.0) | 1.4** | 20 (100.0) | 0.5 | 79 (100.0) | 0.7** | 23 (100.0) | 1.0 | 34 (100.0) | 0.7 | 262 (100.0) | 1.0 |