KNUCH

The Colorectal Surgery department provides the best care with multidisciplinary system that 20 professionals work together for each cases considering not only physical illness but also mental health. We also organizes major academic seminars at home and abroad every year to share the latest advanced medical technique and information with leading overseas medical staffs. Our hospital equipped with advanced laparoscopic surgical equipment and Da Vinci robotic surgery room, and we have medical staffs who has best surgical technique that performs more than 99% as the Sphincter-preserving surgery among more than 700 surgeries per year. In addition, the gastroenterology department performs 2,700 colonoscopies, 750 colon polypectomies, and 85 gastrointestinal stent implantations per year.

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  Robotic surgery

  In addition to the advantages of small scars and rapid recovery of laparoscopy, it has other advantages of good surgical vision, high precision and free-moving robot arms enabling surgery on difficult parts that laparoscopic surgery or surgeon’s hand can not reach easily. Currently, the Colorectal Cancer Center is the organizer of the ARCCS(Asian Robotic Camp for Colorectal Surgeons), and has been invited to Europe and the United States beyond Asia to teach robotic surgery skills and provide guidelines for robotic surgery.

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  Laparoscopy

  The size of the incision is smaller when laparoscopy is done compared to laparotomy(abdominal operation), so the surgical wound looks good cosmetically, the pain is less and the recovery speed is fast. We leads new knowledge not only in laparoscopy, but also various research achievements.

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  Multidisciplinary care

  Specialists from different departments including general surgery, oncology, radiology, radiation-oncology, and gastroenterology, cooperate for one patient at the same time, saving time for the treatment from 1~2 weeks to a single day and providing accurate treatment plan.

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  International activities

  • Organizer of the Chilgok Kyungpook National University Hospital & Dongguk University Medical Center Symposium
  • Organizer of the 1st and 2nd ARCCS(Asian Robotic Camp for Colorectal Surgeons) Symposium
  • The first robotic surgery instructor at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, England (European Robot Surgery Training Center) and across Europe through the BBC (British Public Broadcasting)

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  Achievement

  • Classified as the 1st grade hospital performing colon cancer surgery with the lowest mortality by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service
  • Classified as the 1st grade hospital performing colon cancer treatment with great clinical capacity by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service 1st Class of Colorectal Cancer Appropriateness Evaluation