*National Institute Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, Maryland
‡Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus,
Aurora, Co-lorado
§Department of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience Institute, Carolinas Healthcare
System, Charlotte, North Caro-lina
¶Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts
||Alan L. and Jacqueline B. Stuart Spine Research Center, Depart-ment of
Neurosurgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massa-chusetts; Tufts
University School of Medi-cine, Boston, Massachusetts
#Depart-ment of Neurosurgery, Penn State University, Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
**Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
‡‡Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
§§Biostatistics, University of Michi-gan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
¶¶Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cam-bridge,
Massachusetts
||||Department of Neurosurgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
Virginia
##Depart-ment of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
***Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Center for
Neuro- Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Correspondence: E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02493. E-mail: [email protected]