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

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Neurospine. 2021;18(1):254-255

Publication date (electronic) : 2021 March 31

doi : https://doi.org/10.14245/ns.2142236.118

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

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

Notes

The authors have nothing to disclose.

References

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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