Departments & Centers

We treat a wide range of diseases in the field of gastroenterology including both benign and malignant conditions. Specialists of each organ will conduct surgeries ranging from minimally invasive surgeries to extended surgeries such as combined resection of multiple organs.

IUHW School of Medicine, Laboratory of Gastroenterology
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Highlights of the department

• Conducts all kinds of endoscopic surgeries to deliver minimally invasive surgeries as much as possible
• A variety of advanced surgeries and treatments will be offered;
  • Robot-assisted surgery
  • Combined treatment using anti-cancer drugs based on genomic analysis
  • Complicated hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgery accompanying combined resection of the vessels
• A team consisting of physicians from gastroenterology, radiology and oncology departments will offer multi-disciplinary treatments for malignant tumors
• Clinical tests for advanced treatment will be conducted taking advantage of being a hospital within the National Strategic Special Zone for medicine and will actively treat complicated diseases other medical institutes may not be able to

Other specialty fields and unique treatments

• Outpatient clinic for functional anorectal disorders
• Biliary tract endoscopy for complicated choledocholithiasis such as massive sized and built up calculi
• LECS (Laparoscopic Endoscopic Cooperative Surgery)