Test category · Laboratory

Body fluid analysis

What is measured in cerebrospinal, pleural, ascitic, joint, pericardial and other fluids drawn from the body.

Tests with a page

Procedure

Joint aspiration and injection

Concepts covered by those pages

Synovial fluid analysis

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Semen analysis · also: sperm test Laboratory test
  • Cerebrospinal fluid analysis (CSF analysis) · also: CSF Laboratory test
  • Pleural fluid analysis Laboratory test
  • Ascitic fluid analysis · also: peritoneal fluid analysis Laboratory test
  • Pericardial fluid analysis Laboratory test
  • Amniotic fluid analysis Laboratory test
  • Bronchoalveolar lavage analysis (BAL) Laboratory test
  • Fluid cell count Laboratory test
  • Fluid differential Laboratory test
  • Fluid protein Laboratory test
  • Fluid glucose Laboratory test
  • Fluid LDH Laboratory test
  • Fluid pH Laboratory test
  • Gram stain Laboratory test
  • Fluid culture Microbiology
  • Fluid cytology Pathology
  • Crystal analysis · also: polarised light microscopy, urate and pyrophosphate crystals Laboratory test
  • Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) · also: albumin gradient Laboratory test
  • Fluid PCR panel · also: meningitis/encephalitis PCR panel Laboratory test
  • Oligoclonal bands Laboratory test
  • IgG index Laboratory test
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