Table 3.
Results
| Patient No. | 1-wk follow up | 2-wk follow up | 1-mo follow up | 2-mo follow up | 3-mo follow up | 6-mo follow up |
| 1 | Slight fever (TC 37.2 °C), serum discharge | Slight fever (TC 37.0 °C), serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk removal | Persistence of inflammation | - | Failure |
| 2 | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Healing | Healing | Success |
| 3 | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Healing | Healing | Success |
| 4 | Serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Healing | Healing | Success |
| 5 | Serum discharge, slight pain | Serum discharge, no pain | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Low serum discharge | Healing | Success |
| 6 | Serum discharge, slight pain | Low serum discharge, disk expulsion, no pain | Serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Healing | Success |
| 7 | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Healing | Healing | Success |
| 8 | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Failure |
| 9 | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge | Low serum discharge, disk absent | Healing | Healing | Success |
| 10 | Low serum discharge | Device extrusion | - | - | - | Failure |