Staff and specialities
Professor: Akihiro KAWAUCHI
Urologic Surgery
Associate Professor: Mitsuhiro NARITA
Associate Professor: Kazuyoshi JOHNIN
Associate Professor: Susumu KAGEYAMA
Assistant Professor: Tetsuya YOSHIDA
Assistant Professor: Teruhiko TSURU
Assistant Professor: Keiji TOMITA
Assistant Professor: Kenichi KOBAYASHI
Assistant Professor: Ryosuke MURAI
Outline of the department
The clinical fields of this department are urologic surgery for the diseases of
the urinary tract and the male reproductive organs, pediatric surgery, female
urology, male infertility, endocrinology, and voiding dysfunction. Uro-
oncology, andrology, and congenital malformations of the urogenital organs are
our main clinical works.
QOL-oriented treatments for urogenital cancer patients, such as neobladder for
the patients with invasive bladder cancer, are the top goal of our daily
practice. Minimally invasive therapy for almost all diseases in urology are
being pursued energetically, including robotic and laparoscopic surgeries for
adrenal and renal tumors, prostate cancer and endourological treatments for
urinary calculi.
Research in this department is concerned with clinical urology and involves
projects on:
1) Urogenital cancer. Basic researches of molecular biology for urogenital
cancers are being carried out, including expression analysis
of tumor related genes of urological cancers.
2) Research is under way in the field of proteome analysis of normal urothelium
and urothelial carcinoma in order to find new tumor markers and target
molecules for anti-cancer therapy.
3) Development of novel robotic and laparoscopic surgery.
4) Long-term results of urinary diversions, such as cutaneous ureterostomy,
ileal conduit, continent urinary diversion, and neobladders are being
investigated
5) Urodynamics. Ultrastructure and histochemical studies of the innervation of
the urinary bladder are being carried out.
