Dr. Kim Jin-uk, Spinal Surgery Specialist - Seoul, South Korea

Education

• Graduated Seoul National University College of Medicine
• Fellow doctor at CheongdamWooridul Spine Hospital, Seoul

Professional experience

• Head of the Clinical Trial Committee at Wooridul Spine Hospital Life Science Research Institute
• Chair of the Training Committee at Wooridul Spine Hospital
• Chief doctor at Gimpo Wooridul Spine Hospital
• Full-member of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
• Attended a course on spinal deformity and reconstruction at Washington University
• Received the Best Fellow Award (in 2009)

Procedures offered

• Complex multiplanar spinal deformity: Adolescent scoliosis, adult deformity, anterior and/or posterior approaches, osteotomies, primary and revision surgeries
• Minimally invasive cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery
• Spondylolisthesis, lumbar spine stenosis and instability
• Surgical solutions for radicular pain and weakness due to spinal pathology
• Endoscopic spine surgery

Publications

• Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 2008.12.01; 48 (12) :578-581.
  Extraforaminal Lumbar Synovial Cyst Causing Sudden Foot Drop -Case Report-
  (Kim JU, Lee SH, Lee DY)
• Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 2011.06.01; 51 (6) :427-430.
  Delayed neurological insufficiency caused by transverse sacral fracture after minor trauma in elderly patients.
  (Lee JH, Kim JU, Jang JS, Lee SH)
• ActaNeurochirurgica 2009.03.12; 151 (3) :199-206.
  Transforaminal percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy for upper lumbar disc herniation: clinical outcome, prognostic factors, and technical consideration.
  (Ahn Y, Lee SH, Lee JH, Kim JU, Liu WC)
• J Neurosurg. Spine 2008.05.21; 10 (6) :595-602.
  Postoperative retroperitoneal hematoma following transforaminal percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy.
  (Ahn Y, Kim JU, Lee BH, Lee SH, Park JD, Hong DH, Lee JH)
• Journal of Surgical Oncology 94(7):592-598;2006
  Bone primary sarcomas undergone unplanned intralesional procedures - the possibility of limb salvage and their oncologic results
  (Dae-GeunJeon, MD, Soo-Yong Lee, MD, Jin-Wook Kim, MD)