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Table 2 Comparison of incidental MRI findings between patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and healthy controls

From: Comparison of accidental findings of brain magnetic resonance imaging of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and healthy controls

  

OCD (n = 58)

N/%

HC (n = 58)

N/%

χ2

p

Atrophy

Generalized Cerebral

9 / 15.5

1 / 1.7

7.004

0.008

Fazekas

Grade 1

10 / 17.2

1 / 1.7

10.398

0.002*

Grade 2

2 / 3.4

0 / 0

Cavum Septum Pellucidum

 

5 / 8.6

1 / 1.7

2.812

0.094

Cavum Vergae

 

3 / 5.2

1 / 1.7

 

0.618*

Cavum Veli Interpositi

 

12 / 20.7

1 / 1.7

10.482

0.001

Ethmoidal Thickening

 

29 / 50

14 / 24.1

8.315

0.004

Maxillary Thickening

 

7 / 12.1

13 / 22.4

2.175

0.140

Sphenoid Thickening

 

3 / 5.2

2 / 3.4

 

1.000*

Frontal Thickening

 

1 / 1.7

2 / 3.4

 

1.000*

Retention Cyst

 

11 / 19

13 / 22.4

0.210

0.647

Septal Deviation

 

20 / 42.5

18 / 36

2.336

0.264

Adenoid Hypertrophy

 

10 / 17.2

9 / 15.5

0.063

0.802

Tornwalt’s Cyst

 

0 / 0

1 / 1.7

 

1.000*

Nonspesific Gliotic Foci

 

4 / 6.9

3 / 6

 

1.000*

Demyelination Plaque

 

1 / 1.7

0 / 0

 

1.000*

Mastoiditis

 

2 / 3.4

2 / 3.4

 

1.000*

Partial Empty Sella

 

2 / 3.4

1 / 1.7

 

1.000*

Pituitary Macroadenoma

 

1 / 1.7

0 / 0

 

1.000*

Neuroglial Cyst

 

1 / 1.7

0 / 0

 

1.000*

Parotid Liposubstitution

 

1 / 1.7

0 / 0

 

1.000*

Arachnoid Cyst

 

4 / 6.9

1 / 1.7

 

0.364*

  1. Chi-square test was used. p values < 0.05 being considered significant
  2. *Fischer’s exact test