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Test Code Billings Clinic: 3209 Differential, Spinal Fluid

Performing Laboratory

Billings Clinic Laboratory: Hematology

Methodology

Cytospin Differential
 

Specimen Requirements

  • Specimen must arrive within 1 hour of collection.
  • 1 mL of spinal fluid in a screw-capped, sterile vial or other suitable fluid container.
  • Anticoagulant tube is not acceptable.
  • Maintain sterility and forward promptly at ambient temperature only.

Reference Values

Not established

Day(s) Test Set Up

Daily

Test Classification and CPT Coding

85999 - Unlisted hematology and coagulation procedure

LOINC Code Information

Reporting Name LOINC Code
Differential, CSF 29584-0

 

Profile/Testing Information

Reflex Information:

Abnormal results may be submitted to a pathologist for review.

  • This order is used only when the desired result is a differential completed in clinical laboratory using cytospin and microscopy without cell count.
  • This test may be ordered on separate specimens from the same procedure.