Prof. Sung made a good contribution to spread the MIS in the country after he studied that in Cleveland Clinic and was back to Urology department at Dong Ah University Medical Center. In 2003, he performed the radical prostatectomy and cystectomy with the laparoscope for the first time in the country. Also, in the association with General Hospital (Singapore) which introduced da Vinci robot in Asia, he reported the robot surgery for the patient with the prostate cancer who was accompanied by himself in Singapore in 2004.
Prof. Sung has been arousing interest about the surgical robot through the lectures in many internal university hospitals, forecasting the robot surgery and emphasizing the excellence of da Vinci surgical robot since 2004. Thanks to his effort, about 20 da Vinci robots are brought in now, which does not fall behind the worldwide medical quality. Particularly, da Vinci robot is applied to prostate cancer most frequently. About the obstinate patients with gastric and colonial cancers, Korean surgical robots take pride in the highest level in the world.
Dong Ah University Medical Center set up the systematic Robot Surgery Center including the breast surgery and obstetrics & gynecology department, expanding the Robot Surgery Center within Urology department by bring in da Vinci surgical robot in 2007. It is performing the robot surgery for the gastric cancer, thyroid disease, colonial cancer, etc. in Surgery, esophageal cancer in Breast surgery, gynecological disease in Obstetrics & Gynecology, and prostate cancer, cystic cancer, kidney cancer, stricture of the urethra, etc. in Urology. |