Doctor Profile
Dr. Dae Won Cho
Consultant Spine Surgeon
LANGUAGES:
EnglishKorean
QUALIFICATION:
- MD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- Dr. Cho is Korean educated and trained consultant with over 14 years of experience in the field of spine surgeries including Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeries (MISS). Highly experienced and skilled especially for the percutaneous endoscopic spine surgeries, which leaves only less than 1cm of surgical wound, maximizes the patients' satisfaction.
- He not only performs endoscopic surgeries but is also as experienced and skillful in conventional open surgeries, which are offered when endoscopic surgery is not suitable for the patients' conditions
- As surgical treatment would not always be the ultimate solution, various kinds of non-surgical treatments will be offered by him to the patients before and/or after the surgery is planned.
- He has travelled extensively locally and internationally presenting papers, delivering lectures, workshops and conferences and is also a peer reviewer of world famous spine journals, continuously putting efforts to the academic state- of -the- art.
INTERESTS:
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD)
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical Foraminotomy and Discectomy (PECFD)
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Laminotomy, Flavectomy and Discectomy
- Open Lumbar Micro-Discectomy (OLM) including Unidirectional Bilateral Foraminotomy (UBF)
- Lumbar Fusion Surgeries
- Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF)
- Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion (OLIF)
- Direct Lateral Interbody Fusion (DLIF)
- Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)
- Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PLIF)
- Anterior Cervical Discectomy & Fusion (ACDF) and Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement (ADR)
- Other Surgical Procedures
- Retropleural Approach for Thoracic or Thoraco-lumbar Pathologies
- Corpectomy by Anterior Approach and Fusion (Lumbar and Cervical)
- Open Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy
- Tumor Mass Removal (Intradural Extramedullary)
- Non-surgical Procedures
- Percutaneous Epidural Adhesiolysis (Lumbar) & RACZ Catheter (Cervical)
- Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
- Intradiscal Radiofrequency Coagulation
- Various Nerve Block Injection Procedures
