Infectious Spondylodiscitis of the Lumbar Spine: Conservative Antibiotic Therapy vs. Antibiotic Therapy with Surgery, and the Time of Surgery.

Background: Infectious spondylodiscitis of the lumbar spine is a common serious disease for which evidence-based therapeutic concepts are still lacking.

Objective: This retrospective study compared the impact of the health status of patients on the length of hospital stay with regard to the treatment concept, i.e.

Degenerative symptomatic spinal synovial cysts: Clinical presentation and functional outcome.

Spinal synovial cysts (SSC) are a rare but important differential diagnosis for degenerative or space-occupying spinal lesions. There is controversy about the most beneficial treatment, which can be conservative or surgical. We provide a review of our surgical data for purposes of quality assessment and improvement.

Synovial sarcoma--unusual presentation with cerebral hemorrhage.

Introduction: Soft-tissue sarcomas account for 1% of all malignancies in adults. Typical symptoms comprise a growing and painless mass. Occasionally, the diagnosis is facilitated by secondaries.