Digestive Medicine Department 3

The department has 6 physicians (2 doctoral degree holders and 4 master's degree holders), and comprehensively carries out the diagnosis and treatment of common, frequently occurring and difficult diseases of gastroenterology as well as endoscopic operations.

The department's characteristic advanced techniques include: endoscopic resection of large areas of early esophageal cancer, endoscopic resection of early duodenal cancer, endoscopic resection of gastrointestinal submucosal tumors, endoscopic incision of benign esophageal strictures, endoscopic treatment of esophageal diverticula, peroral endoscopic myotomy for achalasia, and other highly difficult ESD and derived techniques. The department is the only one in the province to perform endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage and endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroenterostomy; EUS diagnosis of biliopancreatic diseases, EUS-guided fine-needle biopsy, EUS-guided drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts, and ERCP after upper gastrointestinal diversion are at a leading provincial level. It routinely performs endoscopic hemostasis, early cancer resection, stent placement, decompression tube placement for bowel obstruction, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, endoscopic treatment of appendicitis and internal hemorrhoids, and more.