What about the thyroid department at Changchun China-Japan Friendship Hospital? My mother has thyroid nodules and would like to go there for advice.

The hospital's predecessor was the Third Clinical College of Baikou'en Medical University, founded in November 1949 as the Changchun Medical University of the People's Liberation Army. It was founded in November 1949 as the College of Surgery of Changchun Medical University of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). In July 1993, the hospital moved to a new location in the Changchun Economic and Technological Development Zone. The new hospital was built by the Jilin Provincial Government and Changchun Municipal Government with land allocation, investment in infrastructure by the National Health and Planning Commission, and the Japanese Government's free aid of advanced equipment valued at 2.6 billion yen*** In honor of the friendship between the people and governments of China and Japan, the hospital was named the Third Clinical College of Paikkouen University of Medical Science and Technology (Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital). in June 2000, Jilin University and Paikkouen University of Medical Science and Technology and other five universities merged to form the new Jilin University, and the hospital was named the Third Clinical College of Paikkouen University of Medical Science and Technology. In June 2000, five universities, including Jilin University and Peking Medical University, merged to form the new Jilin University, and the hospital was renamed "Jilin University China-Japan Friendship Hospital".

The hospital has a long history.

Thyroid Surgery Department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital of Jilin University is a specialized diagnosis and treatment department of thyroid gland and parathyroid glands integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention and rehabilitation. The foundation of the department was laid in the basic surgery department of the former Baikoun Medical University, which is famous all over the country. After dozens of years and the unremitting pursuit of several generations of experts and scholars, the former Thyroid Specialty Group has developed into the earliest professional diagnostic and treatment department for thyroid diseases in the country, and the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic and Treatment Center of Thyroid Diseases in Jilin Province has been set up, as well as the first training base for thyroid specialists of the Chinese Physicians' Association. The department has 2 full professors, 3 associate professors, 2 doctoral supervisors, 2 master's supervisors, and all doctors in the department have a doctoral degree in medicine. The department has a number of high-resolution color Doppler ultrasound such as Parkson Mylab90, Hitachi HIVISIONPreirus, BARD automatic puncture biopsy equipment, KarlStorz endoscopic operating system, Medtronic intraoperative nerve monitor, radiofrequency microwave ablator and other high-precision and sharp medical auxiliary equipments, which have strong clinical strength and skillful professional technology, The company has strong clinical strength, skillful expertise, advanced treatment means, and first-class service level.

After more than 20 years of professional development, the department has formed the diagnosis and treatment characteristics of "standardization, individualization, minimally invasive, precision and diversification". Now the outpatient area is nearly 1,000 square meters, the department systematically carries out ultrasound diagnosis, postoperative review, puncture biopsy, radiofrequency ablation and other diagnostic and therapeutic projects, with an average of more than 50,000 outpatients per year. Now there are 58 beds in the ward, with an average of more than 3,000 surgeries per year, of which the proportion of malignant diseases is more than 80%. The department innovates technical concepts, introduces advanced instruments and equipments, carries out ultrasound-guided puncture technology (CNB, FNA) for tiny nodules, fills the blank in the province, greatly improves the preoperative diagnosis rate of thyroid nodules and lymph nodes, and avoids excessive surgery; takes the lead in China in carrying out the intraoperative laryngeal recurrent nerve monitoring technology, and has successfully completed tens of thousands of cases of nerve monitoring, which ensures that the patients' voices are wonderful; in order to meet the needs of the majority of patients with the radical treatment of tumors while In order to meet the cosmetic requirements of patients for radical treatment of tumors and scarless neck, we have developed the leading new technologies in China, such as complete laparoscopic thyroid surgery, radiofrequency ablation of benign thyroid and parathyroid nodules, and instrument-assisted small-incision thyroid surgery. The precise surgical concepts and techniques have greatly reduced the risk of complex thyroid surgery while eradicating the lesions, in which the 10-year survival rate after tumor surgery has reached the international advanced level. The young doctors of the department have won consecutive championships in the national open thyroid surgery and lumpectomy competitions.