Physicians Who Perform Lumbar Puncture Near Augusta, GA
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Imran Ahmad, MD
Public Health & General Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
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Ziad A. Ahmadie, MD
Emergency Medicine
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Ashish Chandrakant Amin, MD
Internal Medicine
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Peter C. Ankrom, DO
Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine
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Sameer Arora, MD
Internal Medicine
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Reda Wadie A Bassali, MD
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Pediatrics
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Anu Batra, MD
Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
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Lorna Evorie Bell, MD
Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
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Askiel Bruno, MD
Neurology
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Thaddeus Y. Carson, MD
Internal Medicine
Lumbar Puncture
A spinal tap, also known as a lumbar puncture, is a procedure in which a sample of the fluid surrounding the spinal cord, called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), is removed through a needle. The fluid can be examined for evidence of a range of disorders of brain and nervous system such as infection, inflammation, bleeding, and Guillian Barre syndrome.