Conservative versus early surgical treatment in the management of pyogenic spondylodiscitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Santhosh Thavarajasingam,
• Kalyan V. Vemulapalli,
• Vishnu K. Sajeenth,
• Hariharan Subbiah Ponniah,
• Alexander Sanchez Maroto-Vogel,
• Robert Vardanyan,
• Jonathan Neuhoff,
• Andreas Kramer,
• Andreas K. Demetriades,
• Shiban Ehab,
• Florian Ringel,
• Benjamin M. Davies

Affiliations

Santhosh Thavarajasingam

Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Imperial Brain & Spine Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Kalyan V. Vemulapalli

Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Imperial Brain & Spine Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Vishnu K. Sajeenth

Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Imperial Brain & Spine Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Hariharan Subbiah Ponniah

Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Imperial Brain & Spine Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Alexander Sanchez Maroto-Vogel

Faculty of Medicine, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Imperial Brain & Spine Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Robert Vardanyan

Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Jonathan Neuhoff

Center for Spinal Surgery and Neurotraumatology, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Andreas Kramer

Department of Neurosurgery, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, Germany; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Andreas K. Demetriades

Edinburgh Spinal Surgery Outcome Studies Group, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Shiban Ehab

Department of Neurosurgery, Universitätsklinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Florian Ringel

Department of Neurosurgery, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, Germany; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium

Benjamin M. Davies

Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Spondylodiscitis Study Group, EANS Spine Section, Brussels, Belgium