Ear, Nose & Throat Center

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The center is well known for its high succeeding rate of operations, which is the highest level in Korea, and patient satisfaction taking advantage of a rapid diagnosis and treatment.

Ear, Nose, and Neck (8,461 otitis media, snoring, removal of tonsils, and child adenoids, and 272,017 outpatients)

Ear Clinic

Professional medical staff and researchers specializing in diseases of ear-related hearing loss and hardness of hearing analyze reasons thoroughly and then execute a treatment.

1. Hardness of Hearing

Hardness of hearing means inconvenient to hear sound normally or difficult to hear it.

2. Tinnitus

Tinnitus is also called as ringing in ears and is the phenomenon that unwanted sounds are heard from the outside continually.
Method of Treatment
Total hardness of hearing : We apply a medicinal treatment for which the reason of disease can be treated by medication, but we execute an operation for which the reason cannot be treated by medication.
Hardness of hearing with sense nerve type : We apply a medicinal treatment for which the reason of disease can be treated by medication, but we apply a hearing aid or artificial snail transplantation.

3. Otitis Media

Otitis media signifies all of the inflammatory changes that occur between eardrum and ductus cochlea.
Method of Treatment
Medical treatment: Disinfection of inflammations, removal of tumor, and application of medicine.
Surgical treatment: Insertion of vent pipe, plastic operation, cutting of tumor, or retroactive surgery of eardrum.

Nose Clinic

We thoroughly analyze reasons and treat the diseases of nasal malignant tumor and pituitary tumors in cerebrum by using endoscopic equipment.

1. Ozena

Patient complains a stiff and yellow snivel, headaches, facial expansion, fatigue, and fever.
Method of Treatment
Medicinal treatment : It can be treated perfectly through treatment with antibiotics or surgical treatment. For acute inflammation or child patient, treatment with antibiotics is preferred and it can help to treat it by washing the inside of the nose using a saline solution.
Surgical treatment : Using a nasal endoscope as surgical method, is to magnify the inner structure of a nose that makes available to execute a surgical operation more accurately and safely.

We are proud of 98% of operation success rate and near 0% of recurrence rate.

2. Allergic Rhinitis

As a result of environmental pollution, it is of inflammatory reaction having symptoms of sneezing, snivel, and itching.
Method of Treatment
There is a method to grow up resistance power by avoiding reason materials and trigger factors, adjusting the environment, or by giving immunity therapy. For a nasal clogging that cannot be better with medicine, we can execute a surgical operation using lasers or high-frequency heat treatment equipment.

3. Snoring (Sleep Apnea)

It is breathing noses that are generated by vibrating the structures in a nose while suction of air causing by various types of factors.
Sleep apnea : Breathing is stopped for more than 10 seconds since respiratory tract is clogged during sleeping and then breathing is recovered with severe snoring, that it is the disease of sleep disruption disorder usually being repeated several times.
Method of Treatment
Treatment methods vary depending on the cause including basic operation that widens a loosened respiratory tract by executing a surgical operation, removal of a loosened uvula by using lasers, etc..
We firstly discriminate whether the reason of sleep apnea is arisen by closing type by utilizing endoscopic equipment and sleeping multi examination in the snoring cleaning equipment and then treat it by utilizing proper surgical operation using lasers or high-frequency therapy equipment according to state of patient.

1. Please reduce your weight with exercise and healthy eating habit.
2. Please do not use sedative, hypnotics, and antihistamines before going to bed.
3. Please do not drink within 4 hours before going to bed and do not eat anything within 3 hours before going to bed.
4. Maintain a regular sleep habit.
5. Snoring can be reduced by sleep lying down.
6. It is also useful for lift the head of the bed of about 10cm.

Neck Clinic

Neck clinic : We are responsible for diagnosis and surgical treatment of all diseases that occur in the neck.

1. Tonsillitis

It is usually referred to acute inflammation that occurs in one way on both sides of the uvula palate, that it generally induces inflammation on the neck membrane of the rear part of tonsils.
Method of Treatment
We make a patient to eat soft food, to have adequate hydration, to take a stable administration, and to reduce a pain and discomfort of the throat by applying an anodyne. If a high fever and whole weariness continue for a couple of day, we apply a antibiotic agent even until the symptoms will be disappeared. In case of difficulty breathing or hindrance where the tumor is suspected in the tonsils, we execute a surgical operation for removing the tumor.

2. Hyperthyroidism

It becomes not concentrated, hot in the body, lots of sweat, difficult in breathing, tired, losing weight, and frequent evacuation.
Method of Treatment
We treat hyperthyroidism by using medication with anti thyroid, isotope treatment using radioactive iodine and surgical operation.

3. Hypothyroid

It becomes lethargy, severe cold, reduce the appetite but body is swollen and increases the weight.
Method of Treatment
While regularly taking thyroid hormone (for 3 months to 6 months), we find out the changes by executing an examination of thyroid hormone.

4. Thyroid Nodulus

It is a disease that is found out frequently about 5% of the population and means that the thyroid has a lump by increasing itself partially. Most of thyroid nodulus are positive and the thyroid functions normally in many cases so that the thyroid nodulus itself has not any harmful effect on health but it becomes a cosmetic problem only.

5. Thyroid Cancer

The most common cancers in thyroid include mamilla cancer (76.9 to 79.8%) that generated in thyroid cells, follicle cancer (14.5 to 15.7%), indifferent cancer (1.7 to 3.9%) and leech cancer (1.2 to 2.0%) that is generated in C cells in the thyroid. Thyroid cancer is more frequently generated for women with 2 to 3 times than men and it can be touched as tumor in the neck without symptoms. Thyroid cancer can be treated perfectly higher than 85% cure rate.
Method of Treatment
We execute a surgical operation to remove a part or all of the thyroid, in most of the surgical operations, it is to remove the side of thyroid with tumor and the remaining portion is determined in basis of the results of tissue examination during surgical operation.