통증치료실 환자의 임상통계적 고찰

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 diseases. 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 pa- tients(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, l35(17.7%) cervix and uterine cencer patients, 81(l0.6%) colorectal cancer patients, 74(9.7%) hepatoma patients, and 68(8.9%) pancreatic cancer patients. The patients with non malignant chronic pain numbered 971(56.l%). 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%).