Due to its protected anatomical location, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a very stable fluid which undergoes comparatively little change in the early post-mortem phase. While many immunohistochemical markers already established for clinical diagnostic issues in tissue samples obtained by biopsy could meanwhile be translated also to post-mortem tissue, no systematic immunocytochemical investigations have generally been conducted on post-mortem body fluids and for CSF specifically, have not been established at all. CSF as the fluid directly surrounding the brain should also be examined to allow a more detailed characterization of processes in the central nervous system. Comparing traumatized tissue and CSF can complete forensic assessment and complement neuropathological evaluation.
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Bohnert, S., Ondruschka, B., Bohnert, M., Schuhmann, M. K., & Monoranu, C. M. (2019). Post-mortem cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics: cytology and immunocytochemistry method suitable for routine use to interpret pathological processes in the central nervous system. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 133(4), 1141–1146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02050-z
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