Breast reduction in Severance Hospital
About the clinic
Doctors perform the breast reduction in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. The procedure is conducted for 1-3 hours under general anesthesia. A doctor makes the incision and removes excess fat, skin and a part of the mammary gland in some cases.
A patient stays in the Hospital for 1 day after the surgery. Then a woman is dismissed. She needs to visit a doctor every 3 days until the stitches are removed. A patient can return home in 10 days after the breast reduction.
The pain disappears in 4-5 weeks, the swelling - in 2-12 months after surgery.
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Severance Hospital: more details about the clinic
Yonsei Severance Hospital in Korea specializes in radiosurgery. Doctors use Robotic surgery in the treatment of tumors of the thyroid gland, cancer of the digestive tract, cancer of the stomach, colon and other cancers.
Severance Hospital in Figures and Facts
- Annually 660,000 patients complete their treatment.
- 1.6 million outpatients annually
- 40,000 operations are carried out annually.
- The hospital has been certified by JCI (Joint Commission International).
- 4,000 automated operations were performed during 6 years.
- 2,000 hospital beds.
- 1,300 doctors, including 395 professors.
Doctors in Severance Hospital Seoul
- Professor Chung Kyung Yong - specializes in cardiac surgery, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, mediastinal tumor;
- Professor Kim Min Son - specializes in diseases of the spinal cord, diseases of muscles and peripheral nerves;
- Professor Hung Sung Joon - specializes in tumors of the urinary system, difficult urinating, prostate diseases.
Departments in Younsei Severance Hospital
Cancer Center uses such methods of diagnostics: CT, MRI, PET, PET / CT; radiation therapy - IMRT (tomotherapy), radiosurgery, hyperthermia. It cooperates with well-known American Anderson Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University;
Rehabilitation Center provides programs to stroke patients, those who had the spine surgery and extremities with chronic pain syndromes;
Cardiovascular Center in Severance Hospital includes a department of cardiology, pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery. The Center takes adults and children with various disorders of the cardiovascular system;
Pediatric Clinic is dealing with diagnostics and treatment of childhood diseases, including cancer. Clinic doctors work with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (USA);
Women's Clinic "Severance" offers diagnostics and treatment of gynecological and breast diseases;
Center of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology performs 950 reconstructive operations of any complexity with a robotic system "Da Vinci."
Treatment Cost in Severance Hospital Korea
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