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Case Reports
. 2018 Jun 28:2018:bcr2018225511.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-225511.

Cavum vergae and psychiatric illness: substantive or serendipity?

Chandrasekharan Rajasekharan  1 , Vijayakumar Karthik  1 , Muralikrishnan Harikrishnan  2 , Sudhakaran Lekshmi  1
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Cavum vergae and psychiatric illness: substantive or serendipity?

Chandrasekharan Rajasekharan et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: clinical neurophysiology; neuroimaging; neurology (drugs and medicines); psychiatry; schizophrenia.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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(A) MRI brain diffusion weighted imaging sequence demonstrating cavum vergae (red arrow). (B) MRI brain apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) sequence showing cavum vergae (red arrow) and thinned out cavum septum pellucidum (arrowhead).
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