Leiden University Medical Center 490672 222176447 2008-06-27T22:52:57Z Fmalan 582521 [[Image:LUMC.jpg|thumb|320px|right|Leiden University Medical Center]] The '''Leiden University Medical Center''' (Dutch: ''Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum'') or '''LUMC''', is the university hospital affiliated with [[Leiden University]], of which it forms the [[medical faculty]]. It resulted from the merge of the ''Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden'' (Leiden Academic Hospital) and the medical faculty of Leiden University in the late 1990s; similar arrangements exist for most university hospitals in [[The Netherlands]]. The hospital has clinical departments of all [[medicine|medical]] specialties, and acts as a tertiary referral centre for the northern part of the province of [[South Holland]]. In addition, it has a wide range of research programmes in both clinical and basic medical research, leading to a large output of scientific publications. Special units include: * Neurosurgery * Cardiothoracic surgery * Neonatal and pediatric surgery and intensive care * Pediatric oncology * Orthopedic medicine * Biliary surgery * [[Level I trauma center]] ==See also== * [[Universiteit Leiden]] * [[Leiden]] ==External links== *[http://www.lumc.nl LUMC homepage] {{coord|52|09|57|N|4|28|39|E|display=title|region:NL_type:landmark_source:nlwiki}} [[Category:Leiden University|Medical Centre]] [[Category:Hospitals in The Netherlands]] {{hospital-stub}} [[nl:Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum]]