Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

The Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, after years of development, has become a modern diagnostic and treatment center integrating medical care, education, and research, with strong comprehensive strength, advanced technical expertise, and considerable influence nationwide. The center encompasses the otolaryngology-head and neck surgery ward, tenth-floor outpatient clinic, sleep specialty, and upper airway laboratory. It consists of four professional groups: otology, rhinology, laryngology, and head and neck surgery, which collaborate and complement each other to form a complete and efficient medical team.

The department is led by Professor Wang Jianhong, who is a member of the Head and Neck Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association and the Head and Neck Specialty Committee of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association.

Currently, the ward has 29 actual open beds, with an annual outpatient volume of over 70,000 visits and over 1,200 discharged patients per year. The discipline continues to develop, with a well-structured technical team of 21 professionals, including 2 chief physicians, 9 associate chief physicians, 12 with doctoral degrees, and 6 with master's degrees.

Medical Services
Otology: Equipped with hearing and vestibular function testing, microsurgical facilities, and facial nerve monitoring equipment. Main procedures include microscopic/otoendoscopic surgery for chronic otitis media, radical mastoidectomy for middle ear cholesteatoma, hearing reconstruction, correction of external and middle ear malformations, and complex cochlear implantation.

Rhinology: Equipped with olfactory and gustatory testing, nasal acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry devices, and minimally invasive skull base surgery equipment. Main procedures include endoscopic correction of deviated nasal septum, sinus ostium opening, resection of inverted papilloma, dacryocystorhinostomy, optic nerve decompression, pituitary adenoma resection, juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma resection, olfactory neuroblastoma resection, and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea repair.

Laryngology: Equipped with surgical microscope, CO2 laser, low-temperature plasma radiofrequency ablation device, and video-stroboscope. Main procedures include adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, vocal cord polyp removal, vocal cord leukoplakia resection, and laryngeal papilloma resection. A sleep monitoring room meeting international standards with comprehensive facilities has been established to develop individualized treatment plans based on the patient's condition, including surgery and ventilator therapy.

Head and Neck Surgery: Equipped with Da Vinci surgical robot, recurrent laryngeal nerve monitor, CO2 laser, and nasal skull base surgical instruments. Main procedures include transoral robotic minimally invasive resection of laryngopharyngeal tumors, thyroidectomy, function-preserving surgery for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer, laryngotracheal stenosis repair, endoscopic minimally invasive resection of nasal skull base tumors with combined craniofacial approaches, and salvage surgery for advanced or recurrent tumors.

Research
The team has a well-established research platform, having established the Beijing Key Laboratory of Upper Airway Dysfunction and the Research Center for Sleep Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease. It shares the 1,800-square-meter laboratory of the Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, including an advanced upper airway anatomy laboratory. Main research areas include: ① mechanisms of olfactory disorders, genetic diagnosis, imaging studies, and treatment strategy selection; ② comprehensive treatment of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome and its role in the occurrence and development of cardiovascular diseases; ③ minimally invasive surgery for nasal skull base lesions.

Over 20 research projects have been conducted, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Capital Medical Development Fund, among others. More than 40 SCI papers have been published in internationally renowned journals such as Chest and Cell Physiol Biochem, and over 100 papers in Chinese core journals.

Awards include the Second Prize for Research and Teaching Achievements in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, the Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award – Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award, the Third Prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, and the Second Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award.

Education
The center is a postgraduate training unit of Capital Medical University. It is also a standardized residency training base for otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in Beijing, and undertakes teaching tasks for undergraduate and junior college students of the Sixth Clinical Medical College of Capital Medical University, as well as for Beijing Nursing School, while also training a number of visiting scholars. With abundant clinical cases, complete teaching resources, and extensive clinical teaching experience.