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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