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. 2020 Jan 29;10:1391. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-57952-5

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Study flowchart depicting the number of patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) collected for every research step. Note. As in this study only patients with non-progressive ABI were selected from the whole sample of patients with ABI, the flowchart shows the number of patients with ABI of both the main study (“Whole sample ABI”, including both progressive and non-progressive ABI) and of the present study (“Non-progressive ABI”). The category “Non-progressive ABI” includes injuries associated with stroke, traumatic brain injury, anoxia, meningitis, encephalitis, post-surgical meningioma and acoustic neuroma, whilst it excludes brain damage due to tumors presenting the possibility of illness degeneration and/or of progressive neuroanatomical damage associated with adjuvant therapies.