We are very grateful to Dr Silver1 for providing additional information and perspectives to our manuscript2 on the history of cervical spine surgery. Indeed, attempting to summarize over 2 millennia of development within the context of a few pages requires making choices and is almost a guarantee for the so called ‘errors of omission’. The comments given by Dr Silver provide additional insight and we thank him for also correcting minor inaccuracies.
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Maas, A. Response to ‘History of cervical spine surgery: from nihilism to advanced reconstructive surgery’. Spinal Cord 52, 340 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2014.15
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