Won Sik Ham
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45
Total Citations
1,117
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About
Won Sik Ham is a distinguished urological surgeon and researcher whose work has profoundly shaped the field of minimally invasive and robotic urologic surgery. Based at Yonsei University Health System in Seoul, Korea, Ham has focused his career on advancing surgical techniques for urological cancers, particularly prostate cancer and renal cell carcinoma, while rigorously evaluating their oncological and functional outcomes. Ham's most influential contribution — a multicentre matched-pair analysis of partial nephrectomy approaches with over 140 citations — helped establish the comparative equivalence of robot-assisted, laparoscopic, and open techniques at five-year follow-up, providing critical long-term evidence to guide surgical decision-making. His early pioneering work on laparoendoscopic single-site surgery, including the development of a homemade single-port device, demonstrated innovative problem-solving that influenced minimally invasive practice internationally. His investigations into robot-assisted radical prostatectomy span locally advanced disease, oligometastatic prostate cancer, and nuanced technical considerations such as Retzius-space preservation to reduce hernia complications. With contributions spanning over 10,000 robotic procedures and candid analyses of da Vinci system malfunctions, Ham has also meaningfully advanced patient safety discourse. His body of work, accumulating nearly 760 citations, represents a career dedicated to expanding what is surgically possible while maintaining rigorous scientific standards.
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- 3Initial experience of robotic nephroureterectomy: a hybrid‐port technique89 citations · 2009
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