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The Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery performs liver, biliary tract, bladder, pancreas, and pediatric liver transplantations and surgeries of benign and malignant tumors.
We have unrivaled medical skills and experience in pancreas transplantation and has been actively engaged in transplant of pancreatic islet cell these days.
We perform pancreatoduodenectomy, hilar choangiocellular carcinoma, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
The 100th laparoscopic surgery of pancreaticobiliary malignancy was performed in 2012 instead of open surgery, which is considered the most sophisticated surgery.
The head of the pancreas is situated deep among other organs in the body, so laparoscopic surgery is far easier to access than open surgery. It leaves large-sized surgical wound and often causes pain and postoperative complications.
Besides, open surgery has risks of broad resection accompanied by excessive bleeding, combined reconstruction, long operation time, and high mortality. We minimized these risks by adopting laparoscopic surgery and improved patient satisfaction with reduced operation wound and pain due to minimum incision.
For pancreaticobiliary malignancy such as early-stage pancreas cancer and biliary tract cancer which is complicated to be treated with open surgery, we not only laid the foundation for laparoscopic surgery, but also proved its safety and excellence by demonstrating fast recovery and reduced pain and scar.
Medical Specialities
Take a look at the treatment of major diseases in your department.
Colorectal Cancer
AMC Colorectal Cancer Center improves the prognosis of patients through a multidisciplinary system and integrated treatment to provide best treatment by embracing various opinions of specialists from relevant departments on liver metastasis that often occurs in colorectal cancers, lung metastasis, and locally recurrent cancers such as intractable colorectal cancer.
AMC Liver Cancer Center established a systematic treatment system that allows liver cancer patients to receive optimal treatment in the best medical environment by ▲improving medical treatment of liver cancer patients ▲streamlining a surgery-related process and the use of surgical skills ▲reinforcing cooperation among departments, and ▲promoting a regular meeting and study for multidisciplinary treatment, and carry out high-quality researches.
Around 2,000 first-visit patients with biliary tract and pancreatic cancer visit AMC and more than 800 surgeries for the cancer are performed every year. The number of outpatients has even doubled in five years.
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery , Robotic Surgery Center, Digestive Disease Center, Organ Transplantation Center, Robotic Surgery center, Biliary & Pancreatic Cancer center
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery , Liver Center, Robotic Surgery center, Liver Cancer center, Biliary & Pancreatic Cancer center, Colorectal Cancer center
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery , Liver Center, Robotic Surgery center, Liver Cancer center, Biliary & Pancreatic Cancer center, Colorectal Cancer center
