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.