Must provide collection DATE and TIME. Optimal miminum volume is 1 mL. Due to the invasive nature of the procedure, it is required that a report of analysis of the fluid be issued even when the specimen is of marginal quality &/or time stability. Appropriate explanatory/qualifying comments are to be added to the report. Confirmation testing and pathologists reveiw will be performed in the presence of organisms and/or crystals or > 10 WBC/cumm.
Storage/Transport Temperature
Room temp Only
Stability (from collection to initiation)
Time Sensitive. Perform cell count within 2 hours of receipt.
Ordering Recommendations
The CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) cell count measures the number of erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBC) and leukocytes (white blood cells, WBC) in the CSF. When a large number of nucleated cells are present in the fluid a differential will also be reported.Normally CSF is a clear fluid with scant cellularity; CSF circulates in the space surrounding the spinal cord and brain. Whenever cerebrospinal fluid is obtained for diagnostic purposes a CSF cell count is typically ordered. This test is especially useful when the physician suspects a central nervous system infection.
Performed
Monday - Sunday; Days, Evenings, Nights
Methodology
Manual Cell Count - See Individual Analytes
Reported
2 hours
Performing Lab
Hematology
Other Performing Labs
Arnett, Ball, Bloomington, Frankfort, North, Paoli, Fishers, Tipton, West and White Hematology
Synonyms
150
CSFCount
Cell Count CSF
Cerebral Spinal Fld Cell Count
Spinal Fluid Cell Count
Reference Chart
CPT Codes
89051
LOINC Codes
NAME
LOINC
Order
CSF Cell Count
34564-5
Result
Bands/Neutrophils CSF
26512-4
Basophils/Mast Cell CSF
69913-2
Blast CSF
26447-3
Cells Cnt in Diff CSF
19075-1
Clarity CSF
20512-0
Color CSF
10335-8
Comments CSF
21024-5
Eosinophils CSF
26451-5
Immature Grans CSF
69006-5
Lymphocytes, Abn CSF
30414-7
Lymphocytes, Norm CSF
10328-3
Lymphocytes, React CSF
30416-2
Meso/Lining Cells CSF
30429-5
Monocytes/Macrophage CSF
30436-0
NRBC CSF
48778-5
Other Cells CSF
50407-6
Plasma Cell CSF
47413-0
RBC CSF
26454-9
TNC CSF
52816-6
TNC CSF Uncorrected
58470-6
Tube Number CSF
19157-7
Xanthochromia CSFld
13532-7
Interp CSF
21024-5
Test Code (Outreach Synonym)
150
Catalog Code
693443
Collection
Collect
CSF, CSF Tube
Preferred Draw Volume
1 mL
Unacceptable Conditions
Frozen sample.
Collection Comments
Must provide collection DATE and TIME. Optimal miminum volume is 1 mL. Due to the invasive nature of the procedure, it is required that a report of analysis of the fluid be issued even when the specimen is of marginal quality &/or time stability. Appropriate explanatory/qualifying comments are to be added to the report. Confirmation testing and pathologists reveiw will be performed in the presence of organisms and/or crystals or > 10 WBC/cumm.
Storage/Transport Temperature
Room temp Only
Stability (from collection to initiation)
Time Sensitive. Perform cell count within 2 hours of receipt.
Ordering
Ordering Recommendations
The CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) cell count measures the number of erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBC) and leukocytes (white blood cells, WBC) in the CSF. When a large number of nucleated cells are present in the fluid a differential will also be reported.Normally CSF is a clear fluid with scant cellularity; CSF circulates in the space surrounding the spinal cord and brain. Whenever cerebrospinal fluid is obtained for diagnostic purposes a CSF cell count is typically ordered. This test is especially useful when the physician suspects a central nervous system infection.
Performed
Monday - Sunday; Days, Evenings, Nights
Methodology
Manual Cell Count - See Individual Analytes
Reported
2 hours
Performing Lab
Hematology
Other Performing Labs
Arnett, Ball, Bloomington, Frankfort, North, Paoli, Fishers, Tipton, West and White Hematology
