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Creatine kinase BB release into cerebrospinal fluid after lateral ventricle cannulation
F W Bach1, A Kruse, B Melgaard
1Department of Neurology Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Creatine kinase (CK) and creatine kinase BB isoenzyme (CK-BB) activities were measured in ventricular CSF obtained by lateral ventricle cannulation in patients suspected of normal pressure hydrocephalus. Lateral ventricle cannulation resulted in highly and variably elevated CK and CK-BB levels. The results emphasise the interference of these CK and CK-BB elevations in studies on the prognostic value of CSF CK and CK-BB levels in head trauma patients with respect to outcome.