Comment on the situation of vomer trauma in 3 years at Dak Lak hospital (2001-2003)

ABSTRACT

A retrospective study on 273 patients who suffer from vomer trauma were conducted at ENT from Jan 2001 to Dec 2003. The result showed that the number of patients in the following year often higher in the previous year, most of them are Kinh ethnic. Most of patients who suffered from fracture on vomer operated within 10 days so the result are good, no after effect and complication later. The simple nose bone fracture is higher than multiple trauma, rate in males is 5 times higher than in females. The rate for female in 2003 is higher than in 2002. The number of patients in the provincial level hospitals is higher than in the urban level hospitals. Reason highest is traffic accident, then fighting accidents and lowest is labor accident. The bone nose fracture caused by fighting in the following year is higher than previous year. In 2002, the traffic accident lessen significantly to compare with 2001 but in 2003, there is an increase of traffic accident cases.