Department of Hepatobiliary and gastroenterology
Faculty members:
Board certified Gastroenterologist 5
Nurse Practitioner 4
Inspection center technologists 11
We are a leading hospital for treating major digestive diseases!
Highlights including:
- One of the best integrated team in treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We treat each HCC patient according to the international guideline and make each individual treatment plan out of interdisciplinary meetings.
- A most active endoscopic resection team for early cancers of the digestive diseases. ( ESD/EMR team )
- A high quality chemotherapy and radiation therapy team. All regimens matches international guidelines and under critical review. Patients thus receive cancer care at the medical-center standard.
- In keeping with the nation-wide geriatric trend , we develop a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) team to care those elderly with feeding difficulty. Consultation, education and long-term follow-up service are offered.
- One of the most active team in eastern Taiwan for variable duodenoscopic biliary surgeries. That endoscopic technology offers the optimal resolution in this endemic Far-Eastern area of biliary diseases.
- High-resolution imaging facilities for cancer surveillance. Endoscopes equipped with narrow band imaging/blue light imaging and magnifying function are always at physicians’ hands for detecting early esophageal, gastric and colonic neoplasms. Real-time polypectomy can be performed at colonoscopy.
- Comprehensive hi-end tools for diagnosis of digestive diseases. Double-balloon enteroscopy and endocapsules are for diagnosing and treating diseases of the small intestine; Primovist contrasted dynamic MRI and Sonazoid contrasted ultrasonography are for diagnosing hepatic lesions; Endoscopic ultrasonography is for differential diagnosis of submucosal lesions; and MRCP helps delineate pancreatico-biliary tree.
