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Table 1. Demographic and imaging features

Variable	Number of cases (%)
Age	Mean (SD)	13
Gender	Female	13 (52.0)
Gender	Male	12 (48.0)
Laterality	Left	16 (64.0)
Laterality	Right	9 (36.0)
Lobe	Frontoparietal	7 (28.0)
	Frontal		11 (44.0)
	Frontotemporal		2 (8.0)
	Parietooccipital		3 (12.0)
	Parietotemporal		2 (8.0)
Size	Mean (SD)		6.5
Location	Intraventricular		4 (16.0)
	Purely cortical		6 (24.0)
	Periventricular		15 (60.0)
T1 signal	Hyperintense		7 (28.0)
T1 signal	Isointense		18 (72.0)
Hemorrhage	No		17 (68.0)
Hemorrhage	Yes		8 (32.0)
T2 signal	Hyperintense		1 (4.0)
	Hypointense		11 (44.0)
	Isointense		13 (52.0)
Postcontrast T1	Heterogeneous		25 (100.0)
Restricted diffusion	No		3 (12.0)
Restricted diffusion	Yes		22 (88.0)
SWI hypointensity	No		5 (20.0)
SWI hypointensity	Yes		20 (80.0)
Cystic component	Yes		19 (76.0)
Cystic component	No		6 (24.0)
Cyst T1 signal	Hyperintense		18 (94.7)
Cyst T1 signal	Hypointense		1 (5.3)
Cystic post contrast enhancement	No		2 (10.5)
Cystic post contrast enhancement	Yes		17 (89.5)
Blood in cyst	No		14 (73.7)
Blood in cyst	Yes		5 (26.3)
Cyst size	Mean (SD)		4.1
Cyst FLAIR signal	Hyperintense		18 (72.0)
	Hypointense		1 (4.0)
	NAD		6 (24.0)
Necrosis	No		5 (20.0)
Necrosis	Yes		20 (80.0)
Solid component size with necrosis	Mean (SD)		4.6
Edema	No		6 (24.0)
Edema	Yes		19 (76.0)
Periwinkle sign/Stellate sign	No		8 (32.0)
Periwinkle sign/Stellate sign	Yes		17 (68.0)
Calcification on CT	No		0 (0.0)
Calcification on CT	Yes		13 (100.0)

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SD: standard deviation

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Author contributions

A Sahu and AV contributed equally to: Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Investigation, Supervision,Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing Formal analysis. A Snehil: Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing—review & editing. A Sahay: Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation. AM: Writing—review & editing, Investigation, Supervision. AJ: Supervision, Writing—review & editing. ES: Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

Approval was obtained from the ethics committee of Tata Memorial Hospital (Homi Bhabha National Institute), with ethical approval number 640/2020.

Consent to participate

Consent was exempted by ethical committee of Tata Memorial Hospital (Homi Bhabha National Institute).

Consent to publication

Consent was exempted by ethical committee of Tata Memorial Hospital (Homi Bhabha National Institute).

Availability of data and materials

The datasets for this manuscript are not publicly available because data contains personally identifiable information that may be restricted from public access to protect individuals’ privacy.

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