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. 2021 Jul 27;359:577674. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2021.577674

Table A.1.

Quality assessment of included papers.

Study Selection
Ascertainment
Causality
Reporting

a. Does the patient(s) represent(s) the whole experience of the investigator (center) or is the selection method unclear to the extent that other patients with similar presentation may not have been reported? b. Was the exposure adequately ascertained? c. Was the outcome adequately ascertained? d. Were other alternative causes that may explain the observation ruled out? e. Was follow-up long enough for outcomes to occur? f. Is the case(s) described with sufficient details to allow other investigators to replicate the research or to allow practitioners make inferences related to their own practice? Total Score
Abdi et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Abdel-Mannan et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO NO 4
Assunção et al., 2020 YES NO YES NO NO NO 2
De Miranda Henriques-Souza et al., 2021 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Dominguez-Rojas et al., 2020 YES NO YES YES NO YES 4
El Beltagi et al., 2021 YES YES YES NO NO NO 3
Espíndola et al., 2021 NO YES NO YES NO NO 2
Freire-Álvarez et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Kumar et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Langley et al., 2020 YES YES YES NO NO YES 4
Lindan et al., 2020 YES NO YES NO NO NO 2
Lopes et al., 2020 YES YES YES NO NO NO 3
McCuddy et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Parsons et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Paterson et al., 2020 NO NO NO YES NO NO 1
Pilotto et al., 2021 YES YES YES YES NO NO 4
Umapathi et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Utukuri et al., 2020 YES YES YES YES NO YES 5
Present Case YES NO YES YES NO YES 4