| Authors/references | Year of publication | Average age (years) | Tumor size (cm) | Effective | Failure cases & shunts | Average duration of follow-up (months) |
| Gerganov [16] | 2011 | 47.2 | 3.6 ± 1.76 | 48 | 12.5 | 36 |
| Hussam [22] | 2014 | 41 | >3 | 37 | 8.1 | 60 |
| Prabhuraj [23] | 2017 | 53.7 | 4.41 | 65 | 15.4 | 90 |
| Xiang [24] | 2017 | 47.54 ± 12 | >3 | 1167 | 0.6 | 56.7 |
| Our series | 2017 | 50 | 3.29 | 21 | 9.5 | 52.2 |