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Gastroenterological Surgery消化器外科学講座
Staffs
- Professor: Kenichi Hakamada
- Associate professor: Keinosuke Ishido
- Lecturer: Norihisa Kimura
- Lecturer (hospital affiliation): Hajime Morohashi, Takuya Miura, Taiichi Wakiya
- Assistant professor: Takahiro Muroya, Harue Akasaka
- Assistant: Daichi Ichinohe
Research Aims
Our department consists of 4 clinical divisions: (1)Upper GI, (2) Lower GI, (3) Hepato-biliary, pancreas and transplant, (4) Breast and Thyroid. Each division also has research projects and specific education programs to produce excellent scientific physicians.
Current Research Topics
Transplantation
- Long-term improvements of QOL in pediatric liver transplant recipients
- Liver regeneration of hepatic grafts
Hepato-biliary and Pancreas
- Application of glyco-technology to diagnostic and therapeutic tools
- Mechanism of hepatic regeneration
- Utilization of new imaging study (endocytoscopy, 3D image study)
- Development of nutrition therapy for the patients with hepato-biliary and pancreas diseases
- Preoperative chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
Upper GI
- Minimally invasive surgery applying laparo(thraco)scopic surgery (robotic surgery, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery)
- Development of method for helping old aged surgical patients recover in early stage after surgery
Lower GI
- Relation between invasion and metastasis of colon cancer and hyaluronic acid
- Research on robot-assisted sphincter preserving resection and functioning autonomic nerve
- Preoperative therapy for advanced rectal cancer
- Anatomical and pathological research about metastasis and invasion of colorectal cancer using molecular biology
Breast and Thyroid
- Clinicopathological analysis of breast cancer (adhesion molecules)
- Clinicopathological analysis of thyroid cancer