The Korean Journal of Pain

The Korean Pain Society (대한통증학회)
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A Clinical Survey of Patients of Pain Clinic

통증치료실 환자의 임상통계적 고찰

  • Jang, Young-Ho (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Keimyung University School of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Jung-Koo (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Keimyung University School of Medicine) ;
  • Cheun, Jae-Kyu (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Keimyung University School of Medicine) ;
  • Chung, Jung-Kil (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Keimyung University School of Medicine)
  • 장영호 (계명대학교 의과대학 마취과학교실 통증치료실) ;
  • 이정구 (계명대학교 의과대학 마취과학교실 통증치료실) ;
  • 전재규 (계명대학교 의과대학 마취과학교실 통증치료실) ;
  • 정정길 (계명대학교 의과대학 마취과학교실 통증치료실)
  • Published : 1995.04.15
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Abstract

The pain clinic in our institution opened on of June, 1984. since then until December 1994, we have had 1,741 patients who had been treated on an out-patient basis. The patients were analysed retrospectively according to their sex, age, and retrospective disease. There were 969 male(55.7%) and 772 female patients(44.3%) In the age distribution of the patients, the highest incidence was in the forties with 463 patients(26.6%). The second highest age incidence was in the thirties with 357 patients(20.5%), and the third highest age incidence was in the sixties with 341 patients(19.6%). In this figure, there were 203(26.6%) stomach cancer patients, 135(17.7%) cervix and uterine cencer patients, 81(10.6%) colorectal cancer patients, 74(9.7%) hepatoma patients, and 68 (8.9%) pancreatic cancer patients. The patients with non malignant chronic pain numbered 977(56.1%). In this figure, there were low back pain of 188(19.2%), sudden deafness of 17.5%, Buerger's disease of 63(6.5%) and postherpetic neuralgia of 56(5.7%).

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