General surgery is a surgical speciality that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland . They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, peripheral vascular surgery and hernias.

Infrastructure

• The General Surgery department at Medicare Hospital offers tertiary care facilities i.e. conventional as well as laparoscopic surgical procedures from very simple small swelling to most complicated trauma & other surgeries.
• General surgeons perform consultation and surgery on medical conditions involving the breast, endocrine system, gastrointestinal tract, colon, liver, pancreas and rectum.

Services Offered

General

• Hydrocele & Varicocele
• Varicose Vein Surgeries
• Ulcer, Wound & Abscess surgeries
• Excision of Swelling & Lumps
• Lymph node biopsies
• Circumcision

Diabetic Foot & Vascular Diseases Management:

Abdomen

• Retroperitoneal tumors
• Ventral hernia (open and laparoscopic)
• Incisional hernia (open and laparoscopic)
• Inguinal hernia (open and laparoscopic)
• Femoral hernia

Trauma & Amputation Surgeries:

Endocrine

• Thyroid: nodules, cysts, cancer, hyperthyroidism
• Parathyroid: parathyroidectomy (standard and minimally invasive)
• Adrenal
  • Cushing syndrome
  • Pheochromocytoma (open and minimally invasive)
  • Adenoma (open and minimally invasive)
  • Aldosteronoma (open and minimally invasive)
  • Cancer

Breast

• Cysts, lumps, cancer, nipple discharge
• Breast-conserving surgery
• Mastectomy
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy
• Axillary dissection

Stomach

• Cancer &GI stromal tumors, Lymphoma
• Peptic ulcer, Gastroparesis and postgastrectomy syndromes

Liver

• Primary and metastatic liver tumors
• Intrahepatic and hilar cholangiocarcinoma
• Benign tumors and cysts
• Surgical shunts for portal hypertension

Biliary Tree

• Gallstones – laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Benign biliary strictures
• Cancer of the gallbladder
• Extrahepatic bile duct cancer

Pancreas

• Pancreatic and periampullary cancer
• Islet cell tumors
• Cystic tumors of the pancreas

Spleen

• Open and minimally invasive splenectomy

Intestine

• Malignant tumors of the small intestine
• Diverticula
• Obstruction and fistulae
• Pile, Fissure & Fistula -in -Ano Surgeries
• Colon cancer
• Disease of the appendix- Open & Laparoscopic Appendectomy