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Table 4 The most common diseases of patients who received complex acupuncture cumulated from 2002 to 2011 in Taiwan

From: Trends in the utilization of acupuncture among children in Taiwan from 2002 to 2011: a nationwide population-based study

Diseases

ICD-9

aN = 3648 (%)

Infantile cerebral palsy

343

1680 (46.1)

Psychoses with origin specific to childhood

299

1352 (37.1)

Epilepsy

345

260 (7.13)

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

430

202 (5.54)

Intracerebral hemorrhage

431–432

132 (3.62)

Cerebral infarction

433–434

14 (0.38)

Myasthenia gravis

358

6 (0.16)

Other diseases of spinal cord

336

2 (0.05)

  1. aN: frequency of total complex acupuncture use in different disease categories during 10 years