| The Leon Wiltse Memorial Hospital is specialized in the treatment for spinal diseases. More than 50,000 patients visited the hospital in 2009. The hospital carries out about 2,500 medical operations for spinal diseases a year.
Regarding the spinal diseases, the hospital focuses on the treatments without applying medical operations. However, if it is necessary to carry out medical operations, the hospital applies the most optimized operation for each patient. Based on the minimally invasive operation that minimizes the damage to the ordinary cells, the hospital focuses on the dynamic stability operation that helps maintain the original function of the spine, providing every effort it could afford.
The minimally invasive operations carried out at the Leon Wiltse Memorial Hospital is widely recognized through the world. It has been selected as the 'Asia-Pacific Minimally Invasive Operation Training Center' and the 'Asia-Pacific Spine Research Center,' greatly contributing to the education of the medical practitioners from various countries for the minimally invasive spinal operations.
Recently, three spinal operation techniques of the hospital, including 'PELD: Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy,' have been selected as the excellent operational techniques representing Korea by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, in order to induce foreign patients. Such operational techniques provide the minimally invasive operations that minimize the damage of cells and provide no scar.
The Leon Wiltse Memorial Hospital has the international medical center for the treatment of foreign patients. There are coordinators who can speak either English or Russian, providing every potential service. Also, there are exclusive teams for foreign patients at nursing, medical examination and treatment-supporting departments, minimizing the inconvenience that could occur during the diagnosis, examination, hospitalization and operation processes. In addition to the treatment for spinal diseases, the hospital is also specialized in knees, hips, shoulder joints, internal medicine, surgery and health checkup, providing customized medical services quickly. By introducing the video-telephone system, it provides prior and follow-up medical services for foreign patients.
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