General Surgery
Adirondack Surgical Group
Vascular Surgery
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General surgery is the treatment
of injury, deformity, and disease using operative procedures.
General
surgery is frequently performed to alleviate suffering when a cure
is unlikely through medication alone. It can be used for routine procedures
performed in a physician's office, or for more complicated operations
requiring a medical team in a hospital setting, such as laparoscopic
cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder). Areas of the body treated
by general surgery include the stomach, liver, intestines, appendix,
breasts, thyroid gland, salivary glands, some arteries and veins,
and the skin. The brain, heart, eyes, and genitourinary system, to
name only a few, are areas that require specialized surgical repair.
New
methods and techniques are less invasive than previous practices,
permitting procedures that were considered impossible in the past.
