Alternate ventricular asymmetry could suggest a psychiatric diagnosis.
Routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the skull and brain for diagnostic purposes sometimes reveals a wider tip of the frontal ventricular horn on one side and a wider tip of the temporal horn on the other. A search for 'alternate ventricular asymmetry' in Google Scholar, Medline and PubMed Central yielded no results, so the digital archive of the hospital was searched for such cases. A total of 5908 examinations were reviewed and 508 cases were found, comprising 6% of the neurological inpatients and 20% of the psychiatric inpatients (P = 0.001 by χ2). The >3-fold difference in the incidence of this particular ventricular asymmetry implies that it could suggest a psychiatric diagnosis. Clin. Anat. 30:50-52, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Klinik für Radiologie und Neuroradiologie, Christophsbad GmbH &Co Fachkrankenhaus KG, Faurndauer Straße 6 - 28, Göppingen, 73035.
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Egan
Klinik für Radiologie und Neuroradiologie, Christophsbad GmbH &Co Fachkrankenhaus KG, Faurndauer Straße 6 - 28, Göppingen, 73035.
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Mitrovics
Klinik für Radiologie und Neuroradiologie, Christophsbad GmbH &Co Fachkrankenhaus KG, Faurndauer Straße 6 - 28, Göppingen, 73035.
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D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000473:pathology*
alternate ventricular asymmetry; cerebral MRI; cerebral asymmetry; psychiatric diagnosis; ventricular asymmetry