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Neurological picture
Brain abscess formed in the cavum septi pellucidi
  1. T Kihara1,
  2. M Miyata2
  1. 1Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  2. 2Japanese Red Cross Society Wakayama Medical Center, 4–20 Komatsubaradori, Wakayama 640–8269, Japan
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr T Kihara, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawaharacho, Sakyoku, Kyoto 606–8507, Japan;
 tkihara{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.72.3.411

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