Table 1

Key inclusion and exclusion criteria

cSDH with surgical indication
Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteria

  • Age: 18–100

  • Consent possible

  • cSDH located at the convexities

  • Patients with symptomatic cSDH

  • Patients with asymptomatic large chronic/subacute haematoma after 6 weeks of failed conservative treatment

  • Consent not possible

  • Pregnancy

  • Prisoner

  • Angiography contraindication

  • Patient for whom follow-up is problematic (eg, distant residency, homelessness…)

  • Previous surgery for cSDH

  • cSDH, chronic subdural haematoma.