Highlights Chronic inflammation of the synovial cyst induces neovascularization of its wall leading to a possible intra-cystic bleeding. The different signal modulations on MRI are due to the variable consistency and density of the cystic fluid. Synovial cyst hemorrhage produces a sudden increase in the size of the lesion with compression of the spinal cord and nerve roots. Surgery is the appropriate treatment in case of synovial cyst with spinal cord compression.

Candida spp. brain abscess is scare. Clinical presentation is unspecific. Diagnosis requires mycological culture of a puncture or biopsy specimen. Therapeutic management is based on prolonged course of azole or liposomal amphotericin B. We reported the case of Candida glabrata brain abscess in a 27 year-old female patient, with no past history and not secondary to candidemia. The fungus was isolated from a puncture of abscess with complete resection. The outcome was favorable under antifungal treatment by voriconazole.