General Surgery
What is a General Surgeon
Historically, a General Surgeon operated on every organ system in the body including bones, lungs, face, blood vessels etc. Now, there are special training programs for each specific type of surgery. General Surgery is one of the types and it has become mostly limited to the abdomen, breast, skin, or trauma, just to mention a few. Many General Surgeons also work on lungs, blood vessels, and neck.
Below is a partial list of the General Surgery procedures performed by the physicians at Advanced Surgical Associates:
Abdominal Procedures:
- Inguinal, Umbilical, Femoral, Incision hernia repair
- Cholecystectomy
- Appendectomy
- Colectomy
- Colostomy and reversal of colostomy
- Stomach
- Gastrectomy
- Ulcer Repair (Pyloroplasty, Vagotomy)
- Nissen Fundoplication (anti-reflux repair)
- Hiatal, hernia repair
- Open gastrostomy (feeding tube)- Jejuneostomy (feeding tube)
- Spleen
- Splenectomy
- Splenorrhaphy (repair)
- Liver
- Liver biopsy
- Liver resection
Rectal Procedure:
- Hemorroidectomy (laser, banding, staples, ligature)
- Fistulectomy
- Anal fissures (splincterotomy)
- Pilonidal cystectomy
- Protosigmoidoscopy
Breast Procedures:
- Biopsy
- Needle method
- Fine needle aspiration biopsy for cystic mass
- Ultrasound guided biopsy
- Mammotome
- Excisional method
- Lumpectomy
- Mastectomy
- Simple
- Modified radical
- With/without axillary dissection
- Ductal excision for nipple discharge
- Sentinel node biopsy
- Removal of breast implants
Head and Neck Procedures:
- Thyroidectomy
- Cervical node biopsy
- Parathyroidectomy
- Parotidectomy
- Submandibular, salivary gland resection
- Tracheostomy
- Temporal artery biopsy
Urologic Procedures:
- Circumcision
- Hydrocelectomy
- Orcheopexy
- Orchectomy
- Cystocele
In Office Procedures:
- Incision and drainage of abscess
- Excision of soft tissue mass (epidermoid cyst, lipoma, sebaceous cyst)
- Laceration repair
- Removal of foreign body
Other Procedures:
- Removal or Mediport insertion for chemotherapy
- Vein stripping for varicose vein
- Amputations (above/below knee, Transmetatarsal)
- Debridement of ulcers
- Ganglion cyst excision
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