| AGEL Hospital Košice-Šaca, a. s. Lúčna 57, 040 15 Košice-Šaca, 2nd floor |
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The Department of Surgery focuses primarily on the diagnostics and surgical treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract with an emphasis on miniinvasive and laparoscopic surgical procedures, abdominal surgery, and surgical treatment of certain diseases of the endocrine and vascular systems.
It also contains the Centre of Breast Surgery, which provides comprehensive care in diagnostics and surgical treatment of breast diseases, including oncoplastic treatment interventions. The Department has also implemented a wide range of urological surgical procedures.
The UPJŠ Hospital in Košice-Šaca Department of Surgery participates in educational activities of the Faculty of Medicine. This takes the form of undergraduate and postgraduate education.
In accordance with the clinical focus of work, the scientific research mainly focuses on the application of new miniinvasive procedures and monitoring their results in surgical practice and on monitoring the factors affecting the healing of surgical wounds. It also deals with the study of new possibilities in oncoplastic breast surgery.
