TABLE 2.
Demographic Features and Evaluation Results of CTE Study Cases
| Case | Age/Sex | Sport (Duration, Year) | Submission Dx (Stage) | Evaluation (CTE Dx) |
Outcome (✓) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
| 16 | 23/M | FB (9) | CTE (I) | No diagnostic pathology | Eliminated | |
| 23 | 25/M | FB (15) | CTE (II) | 8/8 | 8/8 | Low CTE (3) |
| 15 | 27/M | FB (14) | CTE (II) | 8/8 | 8/8 | Low CTE (4) |
| 5 | 38/M | FB (14) | CTE (II) | No diagnostic pathology | Eliminated | |
| 14 | 40/M | FB (13) | CTE (III) | 6/8 | 7/8 | High CTE (10) |
| 27 | 41/M | FB (17) | CTE (III) | 7/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (7) |
| 21 | 46/M | FB (20) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (9) |
| 17 | 48/M | FB (17) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (7) |
| 25 | 49/M | FB (23) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (9) |
| 29 | 53/M | FB (15) | CTE (III) | 4/8 | 7/8 | High CTE (8) |
| 1 | 53/M | FB (14) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (7) |
| 8 | 61/M | BX (26) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (10) |
| 6 | 66/M | FB (17) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (9) |
| 7 | 66/M | FB (16) | CTE (III) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (6) |
| 9 | 69/M | FB (28) | CTE (IV) | 8/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (10) |
| 20 | 68/M | FB (19) | CTE (IV) | 7/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (10) |
| 18 | 70/M | FB (≥8) | CTE (III) | 6/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (5) |
| 11 | 75/M | FB (18) | CTE (IV) | 4/8 | 6/8 | High CTE (8) |
| 24 | 82/M | FB (12) | CTE (IV) | 6/8 | 8/8 | High CTE (10) |
CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Dx, diagnosis; FB, football; M, male; Outcome (✓), the results of the workflow protocol for the assessment of high and low CTE, number in brackets represents the number of regions with NFTs (derived from Workflow Diagram).