General Surgery
General Surgery
General surgery, as the name denotes, encompasses a broad spectrum of operative procedures with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of injuries and diseases in any region of the body. Its scope of interest includes the skin, breasts, abdomen, peripheral vasculature, and head and neck, among other areas.
The abdominal viscera, which includes the small and large bowels, liver, gall bladder and bile ducts, pancreas, appendix, spleen and the stomach, may be the focus of this specialty.
Abdominal surgery
This subspecialty of general surgery refers to operations that involve the abdominal organs and structures. Indications for abdominal surgery include inflammation, obstruction, infection and tumors. The types of abdominal surgery vary depending on the etiology of the indication.
Common abdominal surgeries include appendectomies (i.e. removal of an inflamed appendix), repair of hernias (i.e. protrusion of bowel through the abdominal wall) and the removal of diseased segments of bowel in cases of inflammatory bowel disease and malignancy.