Surgical Digestive Oncologic Department deals with diagnostics and surgical treatment of tumors in the digestive tract and abdominal cavity: Esophageal cancer, cancer of stomach, duodenum, pancreas, biliary tract, liver, gall bladder, small intestine, colon and rectum, peritoneal carcinomatosis, mesenteric tumors etc.
The Digestive Oncological Surgery team includes a large number of specialists in various fields led by academics and professors:
A team of physicians involved in digestive oncologic surgery:
- Prof dr Srbislav Knežević
- Prof dr Predrag Peško
- Prof dr Aleksandar Kamaraković
- Prof dr Predrag Sabljak
- Prof dr Dragutin Kecmanović
- Ass dr Borislav Tošković
- Ass dr Ognjan Skrobić
- Ass dr sci med Slavenko Ostojić
- Ass dr sci med Knežević Đorđe
- Dr Milovanović Aleksandar
- Dr Nemanja Zarić
- Dr Vladimir Šljukić
Surgeons, oncologists, gastroenterologists, endoscopy department, radiologists, pathologists and nutritionists work closely with the Digestive Oncologic Department on daily basis to achieve the best results in surgical oncology, in accordance with the philosophy of multidisciplinary cancer treatment that is applied in Atlas Hospital.
Types of cancer treated at Atlas Hospital within the Department of Digestive Oncological Surgery:
- Adrenal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Carcinoid tumors
- Colon cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Primary and secondary liver cancers
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pheochromocytoma
- Soft tissue sarcomas
- Stomach cancer
- Thyroid cancer
Atlas Hospital uses an open and laparoscopic approach for tumor surgical staging, radical oncology surgery, surgery after tumor recurrence, and palliative surgery in the following diseases:
Esophageal cancer:
- Total esophagectomy
- Transhiatal esophagectomy
- Gastroplasty and coloplasty
- Radiofrequency ablation
Gastric cancer:
- Total and subtotal gastrectomy
- Cytoreduction in gastric cancer
Pancreatic cancer:
- Cephalic pancreaticoduodenectomy – Whipple procedure
- Central pancreatectomy
- Distal pancreatectomy with and without spleen preservation
- Enucleation
Colorectal cancer:
- Left and right hemicolectomy
- Subtotal colectomy
- Rectal resection – Mile’s resection procedure
- Lower anterior resection of rectum
- Extensive oncologic surgery in the pelvis – cytoreduction and HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy)
Liver and biliary tract cancer and liver metastases:
- Segmental surgery and major liver surgery: Hemihepatectomy
- Hepatic Trisegmentectomy
- Planned two-stage hepatectomy in consecutive surgical approaches
- Liver surgery with preoperative portal vein embolization
- Intrahepatic biliary anastomosis
- Hepatic resection with hilar vascular reconstruction
- Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors
- Gallbladder cancer surgery
- Biliary tract cancer surgery
Peritoneal carcinomatosis:
- Cytoreduction and intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in pseudomyxoma peritonei
- Peritoneal mesothelioma
- Primary peritoneal cancer
Specialists in hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery are responsible for the diagnosis and surgical treatment of primary liver (hepatic) tumors, liver metastases from other tumors (colon, breast, ovary, etc.), bile duct and gallbladder tumors, as well as solid and cystic pancreatic tumors.
The department has trained specialists, multidisciplinary teams and specific technological equipment that enables us to respond to the technically higly demanding operations.
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