Sensitivity of Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytology for the Diagnosis of Cryptococcal Infections: A 21-Year Single-Institution Retrospective Review.

Conclusions: When culture is used as a gold standard, CSF cytology is 100% specific and 39% sensitive, with a positive predictive value of 100% and a negative predictive value of 99.8%. PMID: 30321269 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30321269?dopt=Abstract

Source: American Journal of Clinical Pathology - October 15, 2018 Category: Pathology Authors: McHugh KE, Gersey M, Rhoads DD, Procop GW, Zhang Y, Booth CN, Sturgis CD Tags: Am J Clin Pathol Source Type: research