J Korean Pain Soc.
1995 Apr;8(1):103-109.
A Clinical Survey of Paients of Pain Clinic
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Taegu, Korea.
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 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, 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%).
