Asan Medical Center—Seoul, Korea South

Asan Medical Center

Address:
Asan Medical Center
Olympic-ro 43Gil 88,
Songpa gu,
Seoul, Korea South, 05505

Website

Dong-Ho Lee Spine Center Director: Dong-Ho Lee

Team members:
Chang Ju Hwang
Jae Hwan Cho

Center description

We performed analyses by using various new technologies such as 3D angio CT (to find vertebral artery anomaly) or new MRI protocol to avoid metal artifact.

Most frequent pathologies

Tumor, deformity, degeneration

 

Number of cases 

Cases per year: 
Number of instrumented cases per year: 

Total estimated number of procedures per month:

  • Cervical deformity 
  • Cervical trauma 
  • Cervical tumor 
  • Rheumatoid cervical spine 
  • Chronic pain 
  • Degenerative cervical spine 
  • Degenerative lumbar spine 
  • Dysraphic conditions 
  • Special procedures 
  • Thoracic & lumbar trauma 
  • Thoracic, lumbar and sacral tumor 
  • Thoracolumbar deformity 
 

80
500

 

4
1 
1
2
-
20 
40
-
1
1
2
10 

 
 

Types of Fellowships

  • National fellowship
  • Regional and international fellowship
  • Short-term fellowships (2 weeks to 6 months)
  • Long-term fellowships (6 to 12 months)
  • Fellow can scrub-in as surgeon
  • Fellow can scrub-in as assistant

Average number of surgeries per week in the OR for the fellow: 5