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To the Editor: In his discussion of an 11-year-old boy with a seizure (Jan. 8 issue),¹ Riviello states that in pseudotumor cerebri, pleocytosis is typically present on lumbar puncture. Our experience is that the lumbar puncture is normal. Pseudotumor cerebri is usually associated with a normal cerebrospinal fluid cell count and normal protein content.^2,3,4,5

Alejandro Awad, M.D.
Ricardo Gutierrez Children's Hospital of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina

References

1. Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (Case 1-1998).N Engl J Med 1998;338:112-9. 
2. Pseudotumor cerebri. In: Nelson WE, ed. Nelson textbook of pediatrics. 15th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1996:1735-6.
3. Weisberg LA, Chutorian AM. Pseudotumor cerebri of childhood. Am J Dis Child 1977;131:1243-1248. [Free Full Text]
4. Oski FA, ed. Principles and practice of pediatrics. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1990:869.
5. Baker RS, Baumann RJ, Buncic JR. Idiopathic intracranial hyperten-sion (pseudotumor cerebri) in pediatric patients. Pediatr Neurol 1989;5:5-11. [CrossRef][Medline]

To the Editor: Dr. Awad correctly states that the results of lumbar puncture are usually unremarkable in childhood pseudotumor cerebri. However, the discussion at that point in the Case Record . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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