Leiden University Medical Center
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[[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]
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