ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023
Decompression with or without Fusion for Lumbar Synovial Cysts-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Mid-term effects of posterior versus oblique lumbar interbody fusion on spinopelvic alignment and clinical outcomes in lumbar spinal stenosis: a retrospective comparative cohort study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2026Article
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- A Comparative Evaluation of Surgical Techniques Applied in Lumbar Synovial Cysts in Accordance with the Literature.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Long term clinical and MRI follow-up of 76 patients after synovial cyst resection via microscopic hemilaminectomy: a retrospective study.Brain & spine · 2025Article
- Spontaneous resolution of synovial lumbar cyst presented with severe symptoms: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2024Article
- Spontaneous Resolution of Symptomatic Synovial Cysts of the Lumbar Spine: A Comprehensive Review with Two Illustrative Cases.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Perspective: Operate on lumbar synovial cysts and avoid ineffective percutaneous techniques.Surgical neurology international · 2024Review
- What Types of Strategies Are Effective in Lumbar Spine Surgery? Considering the Etiology, Imaging Findings, and Risk of Complications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
The management of symptomatic lumbar synovial cysts (LSC) is still a matter of debate. Previous systematic reviews did not stratify data according to different treatment techniques or incompletely reported comparative data on patients treated with lumbar posterior decompression (LPD) and lumbar decompression and fusion (LDF). The aim of our study was to compare LPD and LDF via a systematic review and meta-analysis of the existing literature. The design of this study was in accordance with the 2020 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The review questions were as follows: among patients suffering from symptomatic lumbar synovial cysts (population) and treated with either posterior lumbar decompression or posterior decompression with fusion (intervention), who gets the best results (outcome), in terms of cyst recurrence, reoperation rates, and improvement of postoperative symptoms (comparison)? The search of the literature yielded a total of 1218 results. Duplicate records were then removed (
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