Table 1.

Increase in the number of several treatments¹¹

	Nov 2005	Nov 1996
All surgeries under general anesthesia	167,744	128,086
Craniotomy	6,463	6,315
Cardiac surgery with caridiopulmonary bypass	3,689	2,814
Malignant tumour resection	36,569	30,605
Total arthroplasty	6,987	5,561
Laparoscopic surgery	12,027	6,976
Endoscopic treatment of digestive tract diseases	41,669	22,693
Percutaneous coronary intervention	11,249	5,818