PL (ponction lombaire)

[GJH24]

Does anyone know what PL means in this medical/chemotherapy context :

Chimiothérapie pré-phase par
CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE + VINCRISTINE

4 cycles R-CHOP + 3 PL


Thanks!

 

[OLN]

PL should mean ponction lombaire.
Chemotherapy may be injected by repeated lumbar punctures or they may be diagnostic spinal taps.

P.S. : Have you read the answers to your previous questions?

 

[wildan1]

Yes, lumbar puncture is also the correct technical term in English, and this is the term you would find (or shortened to LP) in a medical document.

In more common language, however, we say spinal tap in English.