Table 3:
Outcome of aspiration-injection therapy
| Symptom/Sign | Outcome |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Excellent | Good | Unchanged | |
| Local pain | 87 (41.4%) | 72 (34.3%) | 51 (24.3%) |
| Sciatica/neuropathy | 81 (53.6%) | 32 (21.2%) | 38 (25.2%) |
| Perineal pain/sensory loss | 86 (41.4%) | 70 (33.5%) | 53 (25.4%) |
| Bladder/sexual dysfunction | 30 (32.6%) | 38 (41.3%) | 24 (26.1%) |
| Bowel dysfunction | 22 (35.5%) | 23 (37.1%) | 17 (27.4%) |
| Plantar flexion weakness | 44 (50.6%) | 20 (23.0%) | 23 (26.4%) |
| Plantar flexion paralysis | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (100%) |
| Dorsiflexion paralysis | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (100%) |
| Rectal sphincter reduction | 22 (36.1%) | 23 (37.7%) | 16 (26.2%) |