Departments/Faculties
KNU School Of Medicine| Department | Gastrointestinal Surgery |
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| Introduction | The Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery has performed 7,000 operations of stomach cancer between 1985 and 2010 and approximately 500 operations annually for the last several years. The division has introduced and invented new surgical technologies for the treatment of stomach cancer. Lymph nodes around lesions, for example, were examined and removed. Electrocauterization was introduced to minimize bleeding and migration of cancer cells to the operation sites. Intraperitoneal chemotherapy was introduced in 1990. Recurrence of cancer in the peritoneum is a problem and intraperitoneal chemotherapy provided immediately after surgery was introduced and they showed better outcome. To improve the quality of life of patients, the preservation of vagus nerve or pylorus was introduced and close follow-up of nutritional status of patients has been performed. The division reevaluated the value of decompression of gastrointestinal tract after an operation and found that it was not necessary. Laparoscopic and robotic operations were introduced. And recently the division demonstrated that the conventional splenectomy routinely performed during the operation of upper gastrointestinal tract operation was unnecessary. This tremendous finding was cited by the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.
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| Professors | Chairman: Sang Geol Kim, MD, PhD Seung Huh, MD, PhD
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