Author(s)

Marcel Sincari¹, Alfredo Carvalho², André Nunes³, Mark Daniel Sincari⁴

¹Neurosurgery Department, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
²Orthopedy Department, Centro Universitário Cova de Beira, Covilhã, Portugal.
³Neurosurgery Department, Hospital Prenda, Luanda, Angola.
⁴Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

The management of symptomatic lumbar synovial cysts is still a challenge and a matter of debate with no existing strong consensus. There are different treatment techniques and strategies, the most debated matter is to fuse or not to fuse, efficiency of less invasive techniques. One of our purposes was to provide an updated review of a literature about treatment of juxta facet synovial cysts and as standard surgical strategies are inconsistent, we present a small series of patients treated using different approaches, most of them were treated with MISS techniques, endoscopy, providing good results.

Lumbar Synovial Cyst, Lumbar Decompression, Facet Joint

Sincari, M. , Carvalho, A. , Nunes, A. and Sincari, M. (2023) Lumbar Synovial Cyst, Literature Review: Challenges of the Surgical Management, the Role of Minimal Invasive Techniques and Endoscopy. Surgical Science, 14, 681-693. doi: 10.4236/ss.2023.1411074.