Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	214
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	166
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	126
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	85
Benign neoplasm of major salivary glands - Benign neoplasm of parotid gland (D11.0)	43
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic maxillary sinusitis (J32.0)	40
Chronic sinusitis - Other chronic sinusitis (J32.8)	33
Diseases of tongue - Other diseases of tongue (K14.8)	24
Disorders of vestibular function (H81.2)	22
Cholesteatoma of middle ear (H71)	21

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.4)	361
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.6)	325
Computer assisted visualisation of body structures in 3 dimensions - virtual 3D reconstruction technique (3-994)	167
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.00)	160
Computed tomography of the neck with contrast medium (3-221)	120
Operation on the maxillary sinuses (5-221.1)	98
Operation on several paranasal sinuses (5-224.63)	98
Surgical removal of the palatine tonsils (without removal of the adenoids) - tonsillectomy without adenoidectomy (5-281.0)	92
Measurement of hearing - audiometry (1-242)	86
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.30)	83

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2600

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
137	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
34	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
30	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Doctoral supervision
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals