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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 20(4); 1977 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1977;20(4): 51-4.
Statistical Analysis of 291 Consulted Patients
P Churn, MD, BI Chang, MD, KC Chu, MD, and SK Kim, MD
Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Korea
이비인후과 의뢰환자의 임상통계적 고찰
천 표 · 장병일 · 추광철 · 김선곤
한양대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실
ABSTRACT

Authors have analyzed 291 admitted patients in accordance with sex, age, month, department and disease, etc, who had been consulted to our department from Aug. 1975 to Jul. 1976. The results are as follows. (Cases of tracheostomy local anesthesia of laryngotrachea and private patients were not contained here.) 1. Males were more than females giving ratio of 184 : 104 (1.8 : 1). 2. The commonest age group is 4th decade, 62 (21.3%) and the next is 3rd, 61 (20.9%). The sum of the two is 123 revealing 42.3%. 3. In monthly, the peak is Oct., 35 (12%) and the next is Jul., 33 (11%). There is no specificity in distribution. 4. In interdepartmental distribution, the top is Internal Medicine, 101 (34.7%), and the next are Neurosurgery, 83(28.5%) Orthopedic Surgery, 47 (16.2%), Pediatrics, 20 (7%), and Psychiatry, 12 (4%) in order. 5. The most commonly accounted disease is hearing loss, 56 (19.2%) and the next are epistaxis, 46 (15.8%), acute tonsillitis, 26 (7.6%) in order. But in 22 (7.6%), no pathological findings were found. 6. Operations had been performed in 22 (7.6%) The most frequently employed one is tonsillectomy, 7 (31.8%) and the next are reduction of the fractured nasal bone (5), operations for paranasal sinusitis (3), middle ear surgery (3), S.M.R. (2) and others (2) in order. In interdepartmental distribution of the patients operated, the top was Neurosurgery, 8 (36.4%) and the next was Orthopedic Surgery, 5, Internal Medicine, 4. 7. Laryngotracheal local anesthesia was employed in 57 for performing bronchoscopic and bronchographic examination. 44 (77.3%) were in Medical and the remainder 13 were in Thoracic Surgical department. Tracheostomy had been performed in 55, 44 were in Medical and the remainder 14 were in Pediatric department. 

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