Songul Buyukkale
Specialty: Thoracic surgeon
Experience: 28 years
Clinic: Memorial Hospitals
Admission fee: from 100$
About doctor Songul Buyukkale
Songul Büyükkale is a doctor of the highest category at the Memorial clinic. She specializes in thoracic surgery and is a member of over 6 organizations of thoracic surgeons.
This specialist performs the following procedures:
- Transplantation;
- Anterior mediastinotomy;
- Bronchoscopy;
- Closed methods of interventional treatment;
- Operation after chemoradiation therapy;
- Removal of the mediastinal tumor;
- Mediastinoscopy;
- Thymectomy;
- Transthoracic puncture biopsy;
- Videothoracoscopic interventions.
Patients come to her with the following diseases:
- Adenocarcinoma;
- An abscess or lung cancer;
- Tumor of the chest wall;
- Thymus cancer;
- Pleural mesothelioma;
- Pulmonary embolism;
- Bronchiectasis;
- Diaphragm pathology;
- Pain;
- Accumulation of fluid in the chest cavity;
- Chest deformities:
- Interstitial diseases;
- Echinococcal cyst;
- Pneumothorax;
- Pulmonary thromboembolism;
- Obstructive pulmonary disease.
Scientific activity
Published 31 scientific articles in international and national journals;
Presented 73 reports at scientific congresses.
Work experience
2015 Memorial clinic;
2010 Research hospital, Istanbul;
2009 Sanliurfa teaching hospital.
Doctor’s education
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2004
Internship in Istanbul, Turkey;
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1996
Medical education at Marmara University, Turkey.
Advanced training courses
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Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) training at the University of Lund, Sweden;
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Catholic University of Leuven, Transplant Training, Belgium;
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland;
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Methods for Epidemiological, Clinical and Operational Research (MECOR).
Membership in medical associations
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Turkish Society of Thoracic Surgery;
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Association for Health and Intensive Care;
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ATS;
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ESTS;
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ERS;
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IASLC.
Achievements and awards
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18th Annual Congress of the Turkish Society, 1st Prize for Best Oral Presentation of the Transplant Working Group, Antalya.
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