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AI InsightWhenthe costs of diagnostic tests/treatments of these threesurgical methods were compared, supracricoid laryn-gectomy was found to be the most expensive method(p
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Abstract
Objective: Te aim of this study was to conduct a costanalysis in patients treated with partial laryngectomysurgery due to laryngeal carcinoma.Methods: Te length of stay, complication rates, decan-nulation time, time to initiate oral nutrition, costs of ex-amination, medication costs and total cost were assessedby investigating the records and bills of 26 patients withlarynx squamous-cell carcinoma treated with frontolat-eral, supraglottic and supracricoid laryngectomy surgeryin the Ear-Nose-Troat Clinic of the Şişli Etfal Re -search and Training Hospital between January 2007 andDecember 2011. Results: Frontolateral laryngectomy was performed in11 of 26 patients, supraglottic laryngectomy was per-formed in 8 of these patients and supracricoid laryngec -tomy was performed in 7 of these patients. Complica-tions were observed in one of these 26 patients. Whenthe costs of diagnostic tests/treatments of these threesurgical methods were compared, supracricoid laryn-gectomy was found to be the most expensive method(p
Özet
Amaç: Larenks karsinomu nedeniyle parsiyel larenjek- omi operasyonu uygulanan hastalar değerlendirerekmaliyet analizinin ve maliyete etken olan faktörlerinkarşılaştırılması amaçlandı. Yöntemler: Ocak 2007 ile Aralık 2011 tarihleri arasındaarenks skuamoz hücreli karsinomu tanısı konan ve fron- olateral, supraglottik ve suprakrikoid larenjektomi ope - asyonu uygulanan 26 hastanın dosya kayıtları ve faturalarıncelenerek hastanede yatış süreleri, komplikasyon oranla- ı, dekanülasyon ve oral beslenmeye geçiş süreleri ile tet- kik-tedavi, ilaç ve toplam maliyetleri değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Yirmi altı hastadan 11ine frontolateral laren- ktomi, 8 hastaya supraglottik larenjektomi, 7 hastayauprakrikoid larenjektomi uygulandı. 26 hastadan 1indekomplikasyon izlendi. Bu 3 cerrahi yöntemin tetkik-te - davi maliyetleri karşılaştırıldığında en pahalı yöntemuprakrikoid larenjektomi olarak saptandı (p