Figure 29: Rate of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage in 2010
After 60,794 interventions in male patients (coded as explained in chapter 3.6.1), a postoperative bleeding rate of 7.04% was calculated vs. 5.02% after 70,292 interventions in female patients. The bleeding rate correlates with the age up to 15 years in boys and girls. Afterwards, the age-related hemorrhage rate increases only in male patients until the age of 30 years, and decreases later. In female patients, the postoperative bleeding rate was nearly unchanged after the age of 15 years. m = male; w = female