Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	189
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	105
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	95
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	68
Benign neoplasm of major salivary glands - Benign neoplasm of parotid gland (D11.0)	40
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic maxillary sinusitis (J32.0)	28
Acute tonsillitis (J03.8)	21
Chronic sinusitis - Other chronic sinusitis (J32.8)	19
Other acquired deformities of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue - Acquired deformity of nose (M95.0)	19
Cholesteatoma of middle ear (H71)	18

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.6)	274
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.4)	261
Computer assisted visualisation of body structures in 3 dimensions - virtual 3D reconstruction technique (3-994)	189
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.00)	146
Computed tomography of the neck with contrast medium (3-221)	122
Operation on several paranasal sinuses (5-224.63)	81
Operation on the maxillary sinuses (5-221.1)	78
(1-611.00)	77
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.30)	76
Measurement of hearing - audiometry (1-242)	73

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

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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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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)