Presentation and Outcomes After Medical and Surgical Treatment Versus Medical Treatment Alone of Spontaneous Infectious Spondylodiscitis: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis.

2 Severity of back pain can be quite significant, resulting in poor quality of life and disability scores. 3 Continued bone and disc destruction from prolonged, chronic infection may progress to significant spinal deformity in a subset of patients, with resultant worsening quality of life. 4 The goals of this study were first to describe the clinical features, disabilities and neurologic deficits of pyogenic spondylodiscitis on presentation, and second to compare the functional outcomes between patients who underwent medical and surgical management for pyogenic spondylodiscitis.

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