Sentences with phrase «invasive lumbar puncture»

Collecting CSF requires an invasive lumbar puncture procedure, in which a needle is inserted into the space around the spine.

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Neurological biomarkers can be studied using CSF, but this requires an invasive and painful lumbar puncture procedure.

Against that background, to satisfy the Lancet's patient - protection requirements, but without revealing to hospital authorities what was really going on, Wakefield falsely reported that a gruelling five - day battery of invasive and distressing procedures performed on the kids - including anaesthesia, ileocolonoscopies, lumbar punctures, MRI brain scans, EEGs, radioactive drinks and x-rays - proposed for the lawsuit, was approved by the Royal Free's ethics committee.