Founded by the national famous expert Prof. Chen Yuli in 1998, the Pediatric Surgery of the Second Hospital of Shandong University has become a specialty with unique features, distinct academic style and high reputation at home and abroad with outstanding contributions to the development of pediatric norectal surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, urinary surgery, neonatal surgery and neurosurgery of China attributing to the unremitting efforts of two generations. The Department obtained the rights to grant master’s degree and doctor’s degree in 1998 and Prof. Chen Yuli is the first pediatric surgery doctoral supervisor in Shandong Province
The Pediatric Surgery has divisions including outpatient, ward, pelvic floor and stool control laboratory, etc. occupying a building area of about 1,400m2
Medical Members
The Department currently has 13 members devoted to medicine, teaching and research, including 1 doctoral supervisor, 5 professors and 1 associate professor. The young and middle aged members below 45 years old account for 62%, and all doctors have a doctoral or master’s degree.
Among the Department members, 1 is a tenured professor, 2 are top-notch talents at the hospital level. Having two stable research directions, the Department has cultivated more than ten doctoral degree candidates and dozens of master's degree candidates, and won honorary awards such as Experts with Special Government Allowance, Outstanding Science and Technology Worker of Shandong Province, etc..
Clinical Medicine
The Pediatric Surgery is a key clinical specialty in Shandong Province, and it’s at international advanced level and domestic leading level in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric incontinence and defecation dysfunction. Every year, many patients from all over the country seek medical advice from the hospital. The Department has developed and improved many surgical methods as external sphincteroplasty for nerve-pressed gracilis to treat myogenic fecal incontinence, external sphincteroplasty forgluteus maximus, reconstruction of gluteus maximus and levator ani muscle to treat myogenic difficult defecation, pelvic floor suspension with iliopsoas to treat neurogenic pelvic floor paralysis, seromuscular bladder enlargement, seromuscular bladder encystations and vesical neck suspension to treat neurogenic bladder urethral dysfunction, etc.. It is one of the 2 centers firstly applying internal sphincteroplasty to treat defective development of the internal anal sphincter in China. In China, the Department takes the lead in carrying out and advocating a series of different surgical and conservative treatments, such as clean intermittent catheterization, Malone operation and antegrade enema, drug therapy, biofeedback therapy, electrophoto luminescence, etc. to treat pediatric incontinence and dysfunction and comprehensively improve the living and life quality of patients.
In order to fundamentally treat paralytic children with neurogenic incontinence and lower limb dysfunction, the Department also pays close attention to the diagnosis and treatment of their main primary diseases. Since 1990s, the Department has kept pace with foreign hospitals to perform the release of tethered spinal cord to treat congenital spinal meningocele, spinal lipoma, diastematomyelia, tethered cord syndrome, endodermal cyst of the spinal canal, etc. as one of the main unit applying this surgery early in China. The surgery significantly improves the prognosis of patients. At the end of 1990s, the Department successfully performed the transanal radical excision for congenital megacolon, and became the one of the 2 advanced departments firstly applying this revolutionary minimally invasive surgery in anorectal surgery. In 2001, the Department took the lead in the Province to apply cystourethroscope in the examination and treatment of various pediatric lower urinary tract diseases. In 2006, the Pediatric Surgery of the Second Hospital of Shandong University took the lead in China to diagnose and treat dysuresia caused by congenital prostatic cyst with cystourethroscope. In 2008, the Department took the lead in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) to perform the venae mesenterica superior - jugular vein- intrahepatic LPV bypass (REX surgery) and successfully treated 2 cases of prehepatic portal hypertension caused by cavernous degeneration of portal vein. Till now, 90 such cases have been cured, and the eradication rate of such diseases which can only be improved in syndromes in the past (like cirrhotic portal hypertension) is increased to 89%, filling the blank of this technology in China, and promoting the domestic diagnosis and treatment level of this disease to the international advanced rank.
Scientific Research Level
The Pediatric Surgery has undertaken 5 research subjects of the state, the province, the ministries and the commissions with total research grant exceeding RMB 1 million Yuan, published over 80 papers on domestic and foreign journals, won three national, provincial and ministerial awards for science and technology progress, edited or co-edited over 10 books, demonstrating its strong strength and good conditions in scientific research. Prof. Chen Yuli is a famous pediatric surgery specialist in China, and concurrently serves as the associate editor of Chinese Journal of Pediatric Surgery, the member of Pediatric Surgery Branch of Chinese Medical Association, and the director of Pediatric Surgery Committee of Shandong Provincial Medical Association. Prof. Li Jinliang takes additional posts as the editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Pediatric Surgery, vice director of Pediatric Surgery Committee of Shandong Provincial Medical Association, evaluation expert of National Science and Technology Award and National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Academic Exchange and Cooperation
The Pediatric Surgery has successively dispatched 5 experts to Australia, UK, University of Hong Kong and Israel for advanced study, and presided over, attended and made speech on world, international and domestic academic conferences. The young department doctors received training in rotation in Beijing Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University and other famous domestic hospital.
The Department has successively invited experts from Australia, USA, Hong Kong and Taiwan and such other countries and regions for academic exchange, through which, good cooperative relationship is established and academic development is promoted.
The Department has been invited to participate in domestic provincial and ministerial hospital joint consultation, operation and lecturing, such as the Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University of Medicine, Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Fuzhou Children’s Hospital of Fujian Province, Hunan Children’s Hospital, Shanxi Women and Children’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Xiamen University Hospital, etc..