Letter to the editor regarding perioperative risks of intracranial infection after duraplasty in Chiari malformation type I
摘要
This letter addresses the recent retrospective study by Balawi and Liao that assesses perioperative risk factors for infection in the brain in individuals undergoing duraplasty due to Chiari malformation type I (CM-I) (Balawi and Liao in Egypt J Neurosurg 40:58, 2025). As the first systematic exploration of this concept, their work makes an important contribution to the strategies of infection control in this patient population. However, due to some methodological limitations, the implications should be thoroughly explored as well as cautiously interpreted so that premature clinical translation is avoided.