Eighty patients were treated for spondylodiscitis with the cervical spine involved in nine cases. Conservative treatment was applied in seven cases with Minerva jacket and antibiotics, and surgical treatment was applied in severe, rapidly, progressive, complicated cases and in patients with involvement of nervous system (two cases). The good and satisfactory results in both group were similar. These results show that when the indications are properly established, both conservative and operative methods have satisfactory results.
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