Commentary on “A Prospective, Single-Blinded, Bicentric Study, and Literature Review to Assess the Need of C2-Ganglion Preservation - SAVIOUR’s Criteria”

摘要

The authors are commended for this interesting and educational manuscript. This paper provides great insight on occipital-cervical surgery and the benefit of neuronal sparing techniques with preservation of function.1 The authors are credited for their tremendous expertise and collection of such a large group of patients. One hundred seventy-one patients with the great majority having spastic quadriparesis (96.5%) were enrolled where 88 had C2 ganglionic preservation and 83 had sacrifice of the C2 nerve. However, 12 of the patients with planned C2 nerve preservation had to have a resection of the nerve due to operative issues despite the initial plan to preserve it preoperative.