Using Body Mass Index to Predict Needle Length in Fluoroscopy-Guided Lumbar Punctures.
Ameya NayateIlya M NasrallahJ Eric SchmittSuyash MohanPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2015)
We designed a formula that uses body mass index to predict the appropriate needle length in oblique interlaminar-approach fluoroscopy-guided lumbar punctures and validated it by demonstrating a strong correlation between the predicted and actual skin-canal distance.