General surgery is a discipline that spans multiple specialties in medicine and deals with a broad variety of conditions, involving almost all parts of the body. General surgeons can treat hundreds of diseases including benign tumors and cancers of many types, injuries, gastrointestinal problems, and hernias. In addition to having the skills, training and experience to perform operations to treat these conditions, a highly skilled general surgeon must be capable of determining when NOT to operate, and monitoring a patient for signs of relapse.
General Surgeons perform a variety of procedures including, but not limited to:
• Advanced Laparoscopic techniques (for hernia, intestine, gallbladder and bile ducts, and biopsy)
• Breast disease (benign & malignant) State-of-the-art diagnosis and therapies for breast disease (including high resolution digital ultrasound & minimal access biopsy, vacuum-assisted needle biopsy, sentinel lymph node biopsy, oncoplastic techniques and immediate breast reconstruction, accelerated partial breast irradiation, aka. balloon catheter treatment)
• Hernias of all types: inguinal, umbilical, ventral and incisional
• Gallstones
• Intestinal conditions including tumors and Crohn’s disease
• Colon surgery (polyps, diverticulitis and colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease)
• Anorectal Diagnosis and Treatment (pain and bleeding due to hemorrhoids, Fissures, abscess and fistulas)
• Lymph node surgery
• Lipomas, cysts and other benign skin lesions
• Melanoma & other skin malignancies
• Pediatric hernia and other pediatric surgery
• Thyroid ultrasound-guided needle biopsy