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Ok Pyung SongSpecialist in General Surgery송옥평

Director of Surgery

Ok Pyung Song is a board-certified general surgeon and director of surgery at Min Hospital in Seoul, treating breast, colorectal and anal disease, hernia and endocrine disease, and working in health screening, recovery after chemotherapy and hospital infection control. Holds subspecialty certification in colorectal surgery. Was previously director of Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital and is a professor emeritus of Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine. Published research includes a comparison of purse-string and conventional linear skin closure after loop ileostomy reversal, in the Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology; a comparison of laparoscopic and open appendectomy in pregnant women, in the Canadian Journal of Surgery; and a series of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomies for benign and borderline malignant pancreatic tumours, in the Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology. The most cited papers are a series on the management and outcome of gastrointestinal stromal tumours of the duodenum, in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and a comparison of laparoscopic and open repair of paraduodenal hernia, in Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques.

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General surgery · Breast disease · Colorectal and anal disease · Hernia repair · Endocrine disease · Health screening · Recovery after chemotherapy · Hospital infection control
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