Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · May 2023
[Flow cytometry increases the proportion of valuable samples in cerebrospinal fluid with normal cell count in malignant blood diseases].
The alteration of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in hematologic neoplasms is a poor prognostic marker. The characteristics of CSF are usually analyzed by flow cytometry or cytology. However, paucicellular CSF samples (≤5 cells/dL) can sometimes be considered unsuitable for analysis due to the low number of events. ⋯ FCM allows the analysis of a higher proportion ofpaucicellular CSF samples than cytology in hematologic neoplasms study.