Doctor KIM Jin Uk (Alex Kim)

Position: President of IncheonNanoori Hospital

Speciality:

Complex multiplanar spinal deformity: Adolescent scoliosis, adult deformity, anteriorand/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

Academic Back ground and Work Experience:

Graduated Seoul National University College of Medicine
Fellow doctor at CheongdamWooridul Spine Hospital, Seoul
2011-2012-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
2009-Received the Best Fellow Award
2014-Present-President of Incheon Nanoori Spine & Joint Hospital

Professional membership:

Full-member of the Korean Orthopaedic Association

Overseas Training:

2008 -Attended a courseon spinal deformity and reconstruction at St. Louis, Washington Univers

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 sacralfracture after minor trauma in elderly patients. (Lee JH, Kim JU, Jang JS, Lee SH)
Acta Neurochirurgica 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)
Acta Neurochirurgica 2009.02.20;151(3):199-206.Transforaminal percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy for upper lumbar disc herniation: clinical outcome, prognostic factors, andtechnical consideration (Ahn Y, 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)
Rachis 2008.09.01; 4 (4):10-11. MASSIVE RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA AFTER TRANSFORAMINAL PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC LUMBAR DISCECTOMY REPORT OF TWO CASES (Ahn Y, Kim JU, Lee BH, Lee SH, Park JD, Hong DH)
J Korean Neurosurg Soc 2012.01.01; 51 (1):20-23.A comparison study on the change in lumbar lordosis when standing, sitting on a chair, and sitting on the floor in normal individuals (Bae JS, Jang JS, Lee SH, Kim JU)
J Crit Spine Cases 2009.11.30; 2 (2):111-114.Atypical Presentation of Spinal Tuberculosis Misdiagnosed as Herniated Lumbar Disc (Kim JU, Shin SH, Jang JS, Lee SH
J Crit Spine Cases 2009.11.30;2 (2):136-138.Vertebral Column Resection for Traumatic Thoracolumbar Kyphosis (Kim JU, Shin SH, Jang JS, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2008.11.30;1 (1):3-5.Aberrant Tortous Vertebral Artery Course Misdiagnosed as a Foraminal Disc Herniation (Kim JU, Cheh G)
J Crit Spine Cases 2008.11.30;1(1):21-24.Cervical Spondylolytic Spondylolisthesis with Syringomyelia (Kim JU, Cheh G)
J Crit Spine Cases 2008.11.30; 1 (1):39-41. A Simple Bone Cyst in the L5 Vertebral Body (Kim JU, Cheh G)
J Crit Spine Cases 2008.11.30; 2 (2):106-108.Root Compression Caused by Sacral Fracture Accompanying Lumbar Disc Herniation (Kim JU, Shin SH, Jang JS, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2008.11.30; 1 (1):34-36.Baastrup Disease with Spinal Stenosis Treated by Unilaterally Bilateral Decompression (Kim JU, Cheh G)
KJS 2011.06.20; 8 (2) :125-128.Solitary Hemangioblastoma at the Filum Terminale: A Case Report and Review of Literature (Lee JH, Kim JU, Pang SS, Jang JS, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2010.11.30; 3 (2):144-146.Failure of Indirect Decompression Following Anterior Lumber Interbody Fusion due to Transposition of Endplate Spur into the Foramen (Kim JW, Kim JU, Jang JS)
J Crit Spine Cases 2010.11.30; 3 (2):127-130.Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum Misdiagnosed as Lumbar Radiculopathy (Kim JW, Kim JU)J Crit Spine Cases 2010.11.30; 3 (2):127-130.Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum Misdiagnosed as Lumbar Radiculopathy (Kim JW, Kim JU)
J Crit Spine Cases 2010.05.31; 3 (1):64-68.Two cases of Single-Stage Posterior Vertebrectomy with Instrumentation for Spinal Metastasis (Lee JH, Kim JU, Jang JS, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2010.05.31; 3 (1):77-81.Correction of Severe Iatrogenic Thoracolumbar Junctional Kyphosis (Lee JH, Kim JU, Jang JS, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2010.05.31; 3 (1):69-73. Hemivertebra Resection and the Correction of Coronal Imbalance with a Single Posterior Approach (Lee JH, Kim JU, Jang JS, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2009.11.30; 2 (2):132-135.Strategies for Correction of Progressive Thoracolumbar Kyphosis (Jang JS, Kim JU, Shin SH, Lee SH)
J Crit Spine Cases 2009.11.30; 2 (2):125-127 Staged Deformity Correction for Tuberculosis Kyphosis at L4-5 (Jang JS, Kim JU, Lee SH)
Journal of Surgical Oncology 94(7):592-598; 2006Bone primary sarcomas undergone unplanned intralesional procedures -the possibility of limb salvage and their oncologic results (Dae-Geun Jeon, MD, Soo-Yong Lee, MD, Jin-Wook Kim, MD)

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