Marco M Fontanella, Luca Zanin, PierPaolo Panciani, Francesco Belotti, Francesco Doglietto, Alice Cremonesi, Karol Migliorati, Elena Roca, Lucio De Maria, Alberto Franzin, Oscar Vivaldi, Federico Griva, Alessandro Narducci, Riccardo Draghi, Fabio Calbucci, Ignazio Borghesi, Emanuela Crobeddu, Christian Cossandi, Antonio Fioravanti, Jahard Aliaga Arias, Alba Scerrati, Pasquale De Bonis, Davide Locatelli, Edoardo Agosti, Pierlorenzo Veiceschi, Marco Ceraudo, Gianluigi Zona, Roberto Gasparotti, Lodovico Terzi di Bergamo, Daniele Rigamonti
OBJECTIVE: Surgical indications for cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) remain significantly center- and surgeon-dependent; available grading systems are potentially limited, as they do not include epileptologic and radiologic data. Several experienced authors proposed a new grading system for CCM and the first group of patients capable of providing its statistical validation was analyzed. METHODS: A retrospective series of 289 CCMs diagnosed between 2008 and 2021 was collected in a shared anonymous database among 9 centers...
June 2022: World Neurosurgery