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Affiliations

• ¹ University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
• ² Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA.
• ³ Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Baptist Hospital, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
• ⁵ Cerebrovascular Center Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Neuroscience Institute, Geisinger, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁹ Departments of Radiology and Neurological Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
• ¹⁰ Departments of Radiology and Neurological Surgery, Columbia University, New York, USA.
• ¹¹ Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA.
• ¹² Division of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.