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Letter to the Editor

Reply to Commentary on “History of Spinal Neurosurgery and Spine Societies”

Mehmet Zileli1orcid, Salman Sharif2, Maurizio Fornari3, Premenand Ramani4, Fengzeng Jian5, Richard Fessler6, Se-Hoon Kim7, Toshihiro Takami8, Nobuyuki Shimokawa9, Gilbert Dechambenoit10, Mahmood Qureshi11, Nikolay Konovalov12, Marcos Masini13, Enrique Osorio-Fonseca14, José António Soriano Sanchez15, Abdul Hafid Bajamal16, Jutty Parthiban17, Ibet Marie Sih18, Óscar Luis Alves19, Joachim Oertel20, Lukas Rasulic21, Francesco Costa3, Wilco C Peul22, Krishna Sharma23, Mohamed Mohi Eldin24, Nasiru Jinjiri Ismail25, Ignatius Ngene Esene26, Mohammad Hossain27, Svetoslav Kalevski28, Oliver N. Hausmann29, Onur Yaman30, Shahswar Arif31, Zarina Brady31
Neurospine 2021;18(1):254-255.
Published online: March 31, 2021

1Department of Neurosurgery, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, Izmir, Turkey

2Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

3Department of Neurosurgery, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

4Department of Neurosurgery, L.T.M. Medical College, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

5Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

6Department of Neurosurgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, United States

7Department of Neurosurgery, Ansan Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Ansan, Korea

8Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan

9Department of Neurosurgery, Tsukazaki Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

10Neurochirurgie CMCO Côte d’Opale St Martin, Boulogne, France

11President Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Socieites (CAANS), Nairobi, Kenya

12Department of Neurosurgery, Burdenko Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation

13Department of Neurosurgery, São Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil

14Department of Neurosurgery, El Bosque University, Bogota, Colombia

15Department of Neurosurgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico, Mexico

16Department of Neurosurgery, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia

17Department of Neurosurgery, Kovai Medical Center, Tamilnadu, India

18University of the Philippines, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Bonifacio Global City, Philippines

19Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Lusíadas, Porto, Portugal

20Department of Neurosurgery, University of Saarland, Homburg, Saar, Germany

21Department of Neurosurgery, University of Belgrade, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, Slovenia

22Department of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

23Department of Neurosurgery, Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal

24Department of Neurosurgery, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

25Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria

26Neurosurgery Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bamenda, Bambili, Cameroon

27Department of Neurosurgery, Bangabandhu Shiek Mujib Medical University, Dhka, Bangladesh

28Multi-profile Hospital “St Anna-Varna”, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria

29Department of Neurosurgery, Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

30Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

31Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria

Corresponding Author Mehmet Zileli https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0448-3121 Department of Neurosurgery, Ege University, 1416 sok No 7 Kahramanlar, Izmir, Turkey Email: zilelim@gmail.com

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See commentary "Commentary on “History of Spinal Neurosurgery and Spine Societies”" in Volume 18 on page 252.
See the article "Commentary on “History of Spinal Neurosurgery and Spine Societies”" on page 252.
To the editor
We thank Dr. Khattab and Bourghli for the letter in response to our paper “History of Spinal Neurosurgery and Spine Societies” [1]. In fact, this letter reflects the ongoing competition between the neuro and ortho-spine surgeons.
We have already mentioned the Egyptian Spine Association which is a combined effort of ortho and neurosurgery. We apologize for not mentioning the “Egyptian Spine Study Group” https://egyssg.hpgportal.com/ and “Egyptian Scoliosis Society.” The latter does not have a web page, but a face-book site only https://www.facebook.com/Egyspine/
The sentence “In Egypt, spine practice is done mostly by neurosurgeons.” is the observation of our coauthor Dr. Mohamed Mohi Eldin. Unfortunately, it is not supported by any statistical data or official numbers. On the other hand, the percentage of the practices mentioned by the authors from a survey cannot be taken as authentic data.
Besides, our paper has focused more on the history of spinal neurosurgery. We know that there are eminent international orthopedic spine surgeons in Egypt, who has added and still adding much to the practice and education of spine surgery. No one can ignore them or their great role and well-established existence.
We appreciate the interest of Dr. Khattab and Bourghli to our paper.
With best greetings

The authors have nothing to disclose.

  • 1. Zileli M, Sharif S, Fornari M, et al. History of Spinal Neurosurgery and Spine Societies. Neurospine 2020;17:675-94.

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