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Department of Urology
In the trend of modern aging society, the areas of prostate disease, urologic oncology, voiding dysfunction and female urological disease come to the front. These diseases need to be focused on keeping up and recovering functions of patients upon an operation in relation to the quality of life as well as the importance of medical therapy itself. The Department of Urology, on the edges of advanced medical technology that is constantly changing day by day, exerts all out efforts to provide best medical services while considering accurate diagnosis and therapy and quality of life upon completion of medical therapy; using various minimally invasive surgeries, up-to-dated operating methods and advanced operating technology of using robots.
Major Clinical Results
- From the research center evaluation of Yonsei University in 2005, the Urological Science Institute was selected as the “Best Institute.”
- By developing the Video-Assisted Mini-laparotomy Surgery (VAMS) first in Korea under a mutual cooperation with Thompson USA, the Department of Urology has manufactured and localized dedicated medical instruments; at the same time, it has developed the operating technology of mini-laparotomy surgery and supplied it to other countries.
- Introducing the Da Vinci System an advanced operation robot first in Korea
- Performing the Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy first in Korea
- 100 cases of robot-assisted operations as of 2006
