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DEPARTMENT OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY IN MERKUR SANATORIUM IN ZAGREB 1939-1944
LJILJANA OBRADOVIĆ
; School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
DUBRAVKO HABEK
orcid.org/0000-0002-7675-7064
; School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of this medico-historiographic research was to investigate hospitalized patients at the Otolaryngology Department of Merkur Sanatorium in Zagreb during World War II (1939-1944). Retrospective research of archival medical documentation of the protocols of the Surgical Outpatient Clinic of the Merkur Sanatorium, kept at the Croatian State Archives, yielded data on the number of admitted patients and division of ear, nose and throat diseases into four groups of infl ammation, trauma, tumors, and others. In the mentioned six-year period, a total of 1252 patients were hospitalized at the Otolaryngology Department of the Merkur Sanatorium; the largest number of admissions was recorded in 1940-1943, i.e., 9.8%-19% of the total number of hospitalized patients at the Sanatorium surgical departments. There were 44.7% of patients with infl ammatory diagnoses of the head and neck, 21.7% with tumor diagnoses, 32.3% with head and neck injuries, and 1.4% others. There were no wartime gunshot or explosive wounds recorded, but exclusively peacetime casuistics.
Keywords
Merkur Sanatorium; otorhinolaryngology; World War II; history of medicine; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
294735
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Publication date:
27.2.2023.
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