부인과 영역의 요통에 대한 통계적 관찰

초록

Most of low back pain has treaed in department of orthopedic surgery, but also low back pain is one of the most frequent of all symptoms encountered in gynecological patients and treated with combined gynecologic problems in department of gynecology. There were still many phisicians who first thought, when a woman complaines of low back pain, is that the cause is to be sought in some disease of the pelvic organs. This concept is quite general among the laity, and many women with low back pain consult the doctor because they fear that pelvic disease responsible. In this connection two general statements may be made. first, low back pain is far more likely to be due to some trouble with the back itself than to any pelvic disease. Second, if gynecologic disease is found in the woman who suffers from lowback pain, it does not by any means follow that pelvic disease causes the low back pain. The author has studied for 1034 patients who has complained of low back pain among 3372 out-patients of the Department of Gynecology, Woo Sok Hospital, College of Medicine, Korea University during two years from 1st Jan. 1971, to 31st Dec. 1972, and the result of the analysis is presented by incidence, age, combined gynecologic disease, relation between the gynecologic disease and age of patients, and correlation between menstruation and low tact pan. The results are as follows: 1. 1034 patients (30.66%) out of 3372 patients were complained of low back pain. 2. The incidence of low back pain was showed increasing tendency by increasing of age except 7th and 8th decade. The 6th decade was highest incidence of low back pain as 88 patients (39.3%) out of 224 patients. 3. The majority of common causes of low back pain by analysis of the relationship between the gyncologic disease and age groups in 3rd, 4th, and 5th decade were cervicitis, retro-versio-flexion of uterus, adnexitis, cervical erosion, myometritis, the others, in 3 rd decade hypoplastic uterus and vulvovaginitis, in 4th decade, uterine myoma and vulvo-vaginitis, and in 5th decade, uterine myoma and functional uterine bleeding.