General Surgery

The Department of General Surgery of Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was one of the first specialties established when the hospital was founded. After more than a century of inheritance, development, and accumulated clinical experience, it has developed into a key specialty in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine under the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as a clinical, teaching, and research base with distinctive TCM features, clear advantages, and advanced overall capabilities.

The department has 27 fixed beds and currently 12 physicians, including 2 chief physicians and 6 associate chief physicians; more than 90% hold master's or doctoral degrees. It offers renowned-physician clinics, specialist clinics, special-disease clinics, general outpatient clinics, and a 24-hour emergency service, with experts holding senior professional titles on duty every day.

It routinely performs surgical treatment for various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen; benign and malignant diseases of the thyroid and breast; and all types of abdominal wall hernias. Major operations mainly include cervical lymph node dissection, various types of radical breast cancer surgery, various types of radical gastric cancer surgery, various types of radical colorectal cancer surgery, radical resection of hepatobiliary tumors, retroperitoneal tumor resection, and pancreaticoduodenectomy. In recent years, relying on advanced instruments and equipment, it has continuously developed new technologies and procedures, such as endoscopic thyroid surgery, laparoscopic gallbladder-preserving stone extraction, combined laparoscopic and choledochoscopic biliary exploration and choledochotomy with stone extraction, laparoscopic splenectomy, laparoscopic radical resection of colorectal cancer, laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer, laparoscopic resection of liver cancer and hepatic hemangiomas, combined laparoscopic and gastroscopic resection of gastric stromal tumors, laparoscopic NOSES surgery for low rectal cancer, modified Bacon, ISR, and others. Perioperatively, TCM methods such as traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture are also used, forming a distinctive treatment approach under the concept of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine enhanced recovery (CMERAS). In 2021, the department established the Committee for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Enhanced Recovery of the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Industry Association and formulated the first edition of the Expert Consensus on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Enhanced Recovery. Its surgical expertise ranks among the leading in all integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals nationwide, while its endoscopic minimally invasive surgical technology is at an advanced level among all tertiary A hospitals in the city.

The department undertakes teaching and clinical instruction for undergraduate students at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, students of the School of International Education, graduate students, and trainees in standardized residency training; participates in the compilation of multiple textbooks; and is responsible for 12 research projects at the national level, and at the levels of the municipal Science and Technology Commission, municipal Health Commission, district Health Commission, university, and hospital. Over the past 5 years, it has published more than 30 SCI papers and more than 50 papers in Chinese core journals, and obtained grants for more than 10 domestic and international invention patents.