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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosurg Rev. 2018 Nov 5;43(3):873–880. doi: 10.1007/s10143-018-1047-9

Table 2.

Studies included in our analysis detailing number of pediatric patients with individual data, level of evidence, and potential biases (< 5 patients, mixed adult and pediatric population, adolescents only, young children only, follow-up length)

Study Number of patients Study features
Cersosimo et al. [6] 7 Mixed population, variable long-term follow-up (1.2–7.7 years)
Ghosh et al. [13] 8 Adolescents only
Goto et al. [15] 2 < 5 patients, limited follow-up length (1 year)
Jin et al. [19] 1 Case report, young child
Keen et al. [22] 5 Mixed population, variable follow-up (0.16–3.50 years)
Krause et al. [23] 4 Mixed population (age and etiology), variable follow-up length (1–5.5 years)
Krause et al. [24] 1 Mixed population (only 1 patient met inclusion criteria)
Krause et al. [25] 6 Adolescents only
Kupsch et al. [26] 1 Case report, patient age not disclosed
Mehrkens et al. [33] 4 Mixed population
Miyagi et al. [36] 2 < 5 patients, young children only
Olaya et al. [37] 1 Limited long-term follow up (all less than 1 year)
Oterdoom et al. [38] 1 Case report, rare genetic mutation
Parr et al. [40] 4 < 5 patients, very young children < 2 years old
Petrossian et al. [41] 13 Mixed population, mixed etiology
Starr et al. [46] 1 Mixed population, sex unknown, mixed etiologies
Tronnier et al. [48] 1 < 5 patients, 1 pediatric patient
Vidailhet et al. [49] 5 Mixed population, limited to 1-year follow-up
Zorzi et al. [51] 9 Mixed population, variable follow-up (0.16–4.17 years)