title: [A preliminary study of cerebrospinal fluid cytology in aged patients with dementia].
abstract: 31 cases of dementia of the aged were studied with the method of CSF cytology. Of the 31 cases, 14 were of Alzheimer dementia (AD), 17 multi-infarct dementia (MID), and 25 aged subjects were studied as control. The results showed that the number of lymphocytes in the CSF in AD group was obviously higher than that in MID group. The number of monocyte--macrophages was decreased in both two studied groups in comparing with that of the control group. We didn't find macrophages in AD group. The number of neutrophils in the CSF was high in both observed groups, and more markedly in AD group. The significance and specialty of the results need further study.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Anding Hosptial.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hou
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000166:cytology*; D015161:Dementia, Multi-Infarct / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged