DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

    Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center is located in the east area of Saitama prefecture and has essential roles as a core medical institution of this area in which more than one million people live. Our department is mainly focusing on surgical treatment of digestive disease. Our mission is to provide highly advanced medical care and general surgical treatment.
     As a core medical institution, we provide advanced medicine. We mainly focus on the treatment for gastrointestinal malignancies. We introduced multidisciplinary treatment for the tumors in the advanced stage, which combines chemo(radio)therapy and aggressive surgical treatment. To achieve curative resection, we use the highly advanced surgical technique, such as vascular resection and reconstruction. In addition, we are widely using laparoscopic and robotic surgery. These minimally invasive surgical procedures help patients’ early recovery and better quality of life.
     We also perform general surgery, such as inguinal hernia repair and cholecystectomy. We also treat emergency cases, such as perforation of intestine and traumatic surgery, cooperating with the department of emergency and critical medicine.
 We perform more than 1,000 surgeries per year. You can learn a lot of things regarding surgery through these abundant cases. We welcome many residents and students to our department.

• Diagnosis and treatment of digestive diseases (cancer/inflammation, etc.) such as the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, colon, rectum, anus, and hepatobiliary pancreatic diseases.
• Provide personalized medical care according to the patient's status combining the surgical operation (laparoscopic surgery, open surgery, robot-assisted surgery, etc.) and cancer chemotherapy (preoperative-, postoperative- and multidisciplinary treatment, etc.)
• Laparoscopic surgery for benign diseases such as cholelithiasis, acute appendicitis, and hernia.
• Surgical treatment of emergency abdominal diseases (such as gastrointestinal perforation and ileus, etc.).
• Diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis.

Education
School of Medicine:

School of Nursing:

• Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for esophageal, gastric, colorectal, pancreatic, and biliary cancers
• Conversion surgery for malignancies which initially cannot be resected
• New surgical technique for early gastric cancer
• Basic research to reveal the mechanisms which induce the progression and metastasis of gastrointestinal malignancies.
• Efficacy of intraoperative angiography with indocyanine green in colorectal surgery
• Evaluation of biomarkers for predicting postoperative a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of laparoscopic colorectal surgery
• Clinical study on the comparison of robotic with laparoscopic surgery for gastric, rectal, and pancreatic disease
• Evaluation of the roles of fibrosis in hepatocellular carcinoma

Japan Surgical Society
The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery
Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery
Japan Robotic Surgery Society
The Japan Esophageal Society
Japanese Gastric Cancer Association
The Japan Society of Coloproctology
Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
Japan Pancreas Society
The Japan Society of Hepatology
Japan Biliary Association
Japan Society of Clinical Oncology
Japanese Surgical Association
Japanese Cancer Association
Japanese Society for Abdominal Emergency Medicine

 Professor Hideyuki Yoshitomi, MD, PhD
 Professor Takashi Okuyama, MD, PhD
 Associate Professor Hidehiro Tajima, MD, PhD
 Senior Assistant Professor Emiko Takeshita, MD, PhD
 Senior Assistant Professor Takashi Mitsui, MD, PhD
 Assistant professor Kazuyuki Saito, MD, PhD
 Assistant professor Keishi Kawasaki, MD, PhD
 Assistant professor Teppei Tatsuoka, MD, PhD
 Assistant professor Haruka Oi, MD, PhD
 Assistant professor Musashi Takada, MD
 Assistant professor Syunya Miyazaki, MD
 Assistant professor Yuhei Hakozaki, MD
 Assistant professor Soya Meguro, MD
 Assistant professor Hiroaki Shuto, MD
 Assistant professor Hirotaka Ishido, MD

• Our section has five specialists certified by the Japanese Society of Endoscopic Surgery, and other staff members are also proficient in laparoscopic surgery. We perform safe and reliable surgery with low complication rates.
• For esophageal cancer, we provide multidisciplinary treatment in collaboration with other departments by combining multidisciplinary treatments such as minimally invasive surgery (endoscopes, thoracoscopes, and laparoscopes), radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.
• For gastric and rectal cancers, we perform laparoscopic or robot-assisted surgery in almost all cases.
• For colon cancer, laparoscopic surgery is actively indicated.
• For advanced colorectal cancer, chemotherapy is used to control cancer before surgery.
• Our section has three highly skilled hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeons certified by the Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and provides safe and reliable treatment.
• We perform aggressive surgical resection for advanced liver, biliary tract, and pancreatic cancer, using highly advanced surgical techniques such as vascular resection.
• We aggressively perform robotic surgery as a minimally invasive procedure for patients with pancreatic cancer.
• We perform laparoscopic surgery for liver and pancreatic tumors.
• For advanced digestive cancers, we aggressively provided multidisciplinary treatment combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy according to each patient's medical condition.

Department of Surgery
Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center
2-1-50 Minamikoshigaya, Koshigaya, Saitama 343-8555, Japan
kazumi-y@dokkyomed.ac.jp