Breast and Thyroid Surgery

Area A of Breast and Thyroid Surgery comprises the breast surgery and thyroid surgery specialties and is a national key specialty, a leading discipline in the autonomous region, and a discipline authorized to confer master’s degrees in breast and thyroid surgery. Area A of Breast and Thyroid Surgery has a total of 30 medical and nursing personnel, including 12 medical personnel: 6 professors (chief physicians), 2 associate professors (deputy chief physicians), 1 attending physician, and 3 resident physicians; among them, 2 hold doctoral degrees and 8 hold master’s degrees; the 18 nursing personnel include 1 deputy chief nurse, 1 charge nurse, 11 senior nurses, and 5 nurses, all of whom are graduates of universities or junior colleges. Area A of Breast and Thyroid Surgery is currently the autonomous region’s only truly fully independent diagnosis and treatment center dedicated to disease-specific diagnosis and treatment of breast and thyroid diseases, with an independent outpatient clinic, outpatient operating room, inpatient ward, and laboratory. Currently, 48 inpatient beds are in service, and the center has a unit recovery room equipped with advanced ECG monitors, micro-infusion pumps, enteral nutrition infusion pumps, pneumatic therapy devices, and professional PICC nursing personnel; it also has advanced argon-helium cryoablation systems, intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion devices, ultrasonic scalpels, and other equipment. Over the past three years, the bed occupancy rate has been 143.0%; approximately 1700 patients undergo surgery annually, and medium-level (Grades 3 and 4) or higher surgeries account for 70%. The treatment services provided include: early diagnosis of breast cancer and comprehensive treatment including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and biological therapy; diagnosis and treatment of various benign breast diseases; minimally invasive surgery for breast tumors, sentinel lymph node biopsy, breast plastic surgery, breast-conserving surgery, and reconstruction; minimally invasive surgery for various thyroid diseases and radical procedures such as cervical lymph node dissection for malignant tumors; in particular, standardized precision surgical treatment and comprehensive treatment of breast cancer and thyroid cancer, which have reached an advanced level nationally. Services such as a breast cancer follow-up system, neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer, argon-helium cryoablation, microwave thermal ablation, and the combined use of Peng’s scraping-and-suction knife and an ultrasonic scalpel in breast and thyroid surgery have filled multiple gaps in tumor treatment in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The department undertakes teaching for the college’s undergraduate and postgraduate students. To date, more than 500 papers, including those indexed in SCI, EI, and other databases, have been published domestically and internationally; it has received seven third prizes for scientific and technological progress from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, one second prize for excellent software from the Ministry of Health, one Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Application Achievement Award, and one Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Scientific and Technological Innovation Award; it has participated in compiling more than ten books and has led or participated in multiple domestic and international collaborative research projects, with multiple research projects still in progress. Outpatient telephone: 3451240, west side of the 4th floor of the New Outpatient and Inpatient Comprehensive Building; inpatient ward nurses’ station telephone: 3451461, Area A of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, east side of the 9th floor of the Inpatient Department (Building 1).