Overview
Department of Surgical Oncology offers cutting edge evidence-based care for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of all cancer related illness with the help of state-of-the-art facilities and well-trained faculty. The department undertakes Onco-surgeries of all types, including, Thoracic, Gastrointestinal, Gynaecological, Breast, Head and neck, Urological and Bone.
Facilities
- HIPEC surgery –RAND machine (from Italy)
- Laparoscopic Keyhole Surgery –Karl Storz 4k Ultra HD(german)
- Microvascular free flap reconstruction
- VATS Thoracoscopic surgery lung and esophagus surgery
Services
- Laparoscopic transthoracic esophageal surgery
- VATS (Video assisted thoracic surgery) Lung Cancer Surgery
- VATS procedures for benign lung pathology
- Laparoscopic colorectal procedures
- Total/Extended Total / Distal Gastrectomies
- Whipples procedures
- Hepatobiliary cancer surgeries
- Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC for advanced GI malignancies
- Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC for advanced and recurrent ovarian malignancies
- PIPAC (Pressurized Intraperitoneal chemotherapy)
- Laparoscopic surgery for carcinoma endometrium
- Breast Conservation surgery with flap reconstruction
- Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
- Radical Cystectomy with ileal conduit/neobladder
- RPLND
- Locally advanced carcinoma of the oral cavity
- Larynx preservation surgeries
- Near Total Laryngectomies
- Free flap reconstructive procedures for advanced malignancies
- Limb salvage surgery with prosthetic limb reconstruction
Faculties
Publications
- Ravishankaran, Praveen & Rajamanickam, Karunanithi. (2011). Clinical significance of preoperative serum interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein level in breast cancer patients. World journal of surgical oncology. 9. 18. 10.1186/1477-7819-9-18.
- Ravishankaran P, Shah AM, Bhat R. Correlation of interleukin-6, serum lactate, and C-reactive protein to inflammation, complication, and outcome during the surgical course of patients with acute abdomen. J Interferon Cytokine Res. 2011 Sep;31(9):685-90.doi: 10.1089/jir.2011.0021
- Ravishankaran P, Krishnamurthy A. Prognostic value of metastatic lymph nodal ratio in squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus: A three-step extrapolative study. South Asian J Cancer. 2014 Oct;3(4):213-6. doi: 10.4103/2278-330X.142976
- Krishnamurthy A, Kumar RK, Ravishankaran P. Exploring the role of technitium-99m dimercaptosuccinyl acid (V) scan in medullary carcinoma thyroid patients with postoperative persistent hypercalcitoninemia in the era of positron emission tomography-computerized tomography. Indian J Nucl Med. 2014 Jul;29(3):146-50. doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.136562.
- Ravishankaran, P., Mohan, G., Srinivasan, A. et al. Left Sided Amyand’s Hernia, A Rare Occurance: A Case Report. Indian J Surg 75, 247–248 (2013).
- Ravishankaran P, Rajamani G. Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 2010 Apr;15(2):72-3. doi: 10.4103/0971-9261.70648
- Ravishankaran P Jr, Rajamani A. Evisceration of Appendix through the Drain Site: A Rare Case Report. Indian J Surg. 2013 Jun;75(Suppl 1):57-8. doi: 10.1007/s12262-011-0337