Gastrointestinal Surgery

The Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University is one of the clinical specialty departments established relatively early in the autonomous region, with a focus on gastrointestinal tumors and external abdominal hernias. It is currently a National Key Clinical Specialty (General Surgery), a Key Discipline of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (General Surgery), a Leading Discipline in Medicine and Health of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (General Surgery), and a principal member institution of the Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery Physicians Branch of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Physicians Association. The department currently has 87 beds available, handles more than 30,000 outpatient visits annually, admits more than 3,500 patients annually, and performs more than 2,000 operations annually, of which minimally invasive operations account for at least 50%; Professor Wu Xinlin serves as department director, Professor Wang Chaoyang as deputy director, and the department has a team of renowned experts in the autonomous region, including Professors Hou Mingxing, Dong Peide, and Luo Li, with superb medical skills and extensive clinical experience. The department currently has 20 doctors, including 8 chief physicians and 5 associate chief physicians; 8 hold doctoral degrees and 9 hold master's degrees; and 46 nursing staff, including 3 associate chief nurses and 3 international ostomy therapists. The department specializes in standardized clinical diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal tumors, perianal diseases, and external abdominal hernias, as well as precise, personalized minimally invasive treatment. It routinely performs difficult and major operations such as laparoscopic radical surgery for gastric and colorectal cancer, laparoscopic total colectomy, and lateral lymph node dissection for advanced rectal cancer, and has reached an advanced level in the autonomous region in laparoscopic hernia repair, comprehensive treatment of advanced gastrointestinal tumors, and radical resection of retroperitoneal tumors. It was among the earlier departments in the region to perform minimally invasive operations for malignant tumors, including laparoscopic resection of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, laparoscopic anus-preserving surgery for ultra-low rectal cancer, and NOSES procedures. Since 2018, the department has established a pediatric surgery subspecialty group and has made substantial progress, particularly in areas such as the surgical treatment of neonatal NEC.