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A 60-year-old previously healthy woman sought medical attention at a memory clinic for subjective cognitive impairment. Neurological and cognitive testing was normal, except that she performed at the lower limit of normal in A Quick Test of Cognitive Speed (AQT) and Rey complex figure tests. MRI of the brain was normal. As a part of the investigation she underwent lumbar puncture, a routine procedure in memory investigations in Sweden.
The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was found to be yellow and viscous. The CSF flow through the lumbar …
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Contributors NM drafted the paper. RM and AH managed the patient and collected clinical data. RM, AH, LM, KB and HZ revised the paper for intellectual content.
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Competing interests None.
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Ethics approval University of Gothenburg ethical committee.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned. Externally peer reviewed. This paper was reviewed by Brendan McLean, Truro, UK.
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