CSF analysis for Clinical Chemists [1]
CSF analysis for Neurologists [2]
Neurologic CSF diagnostic [3, 16, 17]

Theoretical Aspects
Anatomy and Physiology of the CSF space [1, 2, 4, 5]
Biophysics of blood-CSF barrier function [4, 5, 6]
Dynamics of brain proteins in CSF [6, 7]
Theoretical background of neurochemical methods [8]
Reibergram: construction [9a] and interpretation [9b]

Laboratory practice
Proteinanalysis in Neurochemistry laboratory [10]
Cytology [11]
Neuroimmunology [12, 15, 39]
Oligoclonal IgG [13, 15, 30, 41]
Antibody detection, Antibody-Index [14, 15, 27, 39]
CSF Report [3, 16, 17], Example of CSF data report [16, 18],

Laboratory Software: www.wormek.de, www.Comed-com.de

Particular Proteins
• Neuron-spezific enolase [6, 7, 20, 21]
• Tau protein [6, 7, 22]
• Beta-trace protein [23, 24]
• Carcinoembryonic antigen [25]

Clinical Interpretations
CSF data interpretations- Differentialdiagnosis of Neurological diseases [15, 16, 17]
Multiple sclerosis [18, 6, 27, 39]
Tuberkulosis [1, 2, 29]
HIV and opportunistic diseases [1, 2, 16]
Neuroborreliosis [28]
Bacterial meningitis [1, 2, 16]
HSV Encephalitis [1, 2, 16]

CSF Analysis in tropical Neurology
• Trypanosomiasis [29, 30]
• Eosinophilic Meningitis [31]
• HIV and opportunistic infections [1, 2, 13]
• Tuberculosis [1, 2, 13, 19]
• Viral Infektions [ 32, 33, 34, 35]

Quality Assessment
International consensus [36]
CSF Survey [36, 37] www.dgln.de
Actual CSF Survey: www.INSTAND-ev.de
Recommendations [38]