Patient and Study Characteristics
Between 2011 and 2020, the Neurosurgery Department database in Malatya Inonu University, School of Medicine was searched to evaluate 100 patients with clinically and radiologically proved symptomatic CM-I diagnosis. Also sex and age were matched to patients with normal MRI reports to form the control group. Patients with missing clinical data or with a history of prior cranial surgery were excluded from the study.
The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Malatya Clinical Researches in Malatya, Turkey (Protocol number: 2021/104). Since the patients were retrospectively chosen and the MR images examined were fully de-identified, the analysis did not require any informed consent.