Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	157
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	49
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	24
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	12
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	10
Benign neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage - Benign neoplasm of vertebral column (D16.6)	7
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	7
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbosacral region (M43.17)	7
Benign neoplasm of meninges - Benign neoplasm of cerebral meninges (D32.0)	5
Intracranial and intraspinal abscess and granuloma - Intracranial abscess and granuloma (G06.0)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	291
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	238
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.30)	145
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	128
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	107
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	96
Computer assisted visualisation of body structures in 3 dimensions - virtual 3D reconstruction technique (3-994)	86
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	64
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	54
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	51

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1700

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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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
158	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
32	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)