General Surgery in India

Minimally Invasive Surgery

 

• Management of gallstone disease
  
• Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery for obesity
• Management of gastroesophageal reflux disease requiring fundoplication, paraoesophageal hernias, achalasia, gastric tumours, groin hernias, hyperhidrosis, enlarged spleen where minimal access surgery may be useful
• Diagnostic and staging laparoscopy for evaluation of tumours

Nutritional Support Services

 

• Dedicated Surgeons, Physicians, Nursing Officers, Dieticians and Pharmacists provide multi-disciplinary Nutritional Support Service for patients requiring enteral or parenteral nutritional support

Breast & Trauma Surgery

 

• Breast screening programme and mammogram localisation service
• Breast Counseling and Support Service for breast cancer and post-surgical patients
• Multi-disciplinary approach to breast cancer management including assessment of breast lesions seen on mammogram / ultrasound, diagnosis using minimally invasive techniques and surgery for the breast and axilla
• Ultrasound - guided mammotome biopsy
• Mammographic - guided mammotome biopsy
• Assessment, diagnosis, surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy for malignant melanoma
• Trauma Service
• Integrating multi-disciplinary care of the multiply injured patient
• Trauma Registry
• Quality Assurance activities
• Educational lectures for doctors and nurses

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

 

• Management of problems of stones disease of the gallbladder and biliary tree (including recurrent pyogenic cholangitis)
• Management of benign conditions of the liver (including benign tumours, abscesses, cysts)
• Management of benign conditions of the bile duct (including benign tumours, choledochal cysts, injuries, stricutre)
• Management of benign conditions of the pancreas (including stones, pancreatitis)
• Management of malignant tumours of the liver (including HCC, cholangiocarcinoma and liver metastases), gallbladder and bile duct cancers, and pancreatic tumours (including adenocarcinoma and cystic tumours)
• Functional evaluation of liver reserve

 

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery & Endoscopy Service 

• Comprehensive management of oesophagus, stomach and other upper GI cancers
• Management of obesity
• Management of upper GI motility disorders
• Fiberoptic endoscopic service provides screening, diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal tract disease (peptic ulcer disease, gastric and oesophageal cancer, etc)
  
• Therapeutic endoscopy in the treatment of bile duct stones, achalasia, stricture, advanced gastrointestinal cancers and intragastric balloon for obesity.

Vascular Surgery

• Chronic leg ischemia-claudication, rest pain, gangrene and ulcers
• Acute leg ishcemia-sudden pain, coldness, numbness
• Vascular shunts for renal dialysis
• Periotoneal dialysis procedures
• Vericose veins, venous ulcers, spider veins
• Swollen legs
• Abdominal and peripheral aneurysm
• Visceral ischemia - pain on eating
• Ischemic hands - cold, blue, painful, numb hands
• Vascular trauma
• Renal artery disease - hypertension, renal salvage
• Carotid artery disease - transient ischemic attacks
• Endovascular procedures - aneurysm stents
• Vascular malformations - hemangiomas
• Vascular ultrasound/Duplex
• Carotid/Vertebral artery assessment
• Abdominal aorta (Endograft)/Renal artery/Mesenteric artery assessment
• Arterial system of the upper and lower limbs
• Vascular graft surveillance/AV Fistulae
• Venous scan to assess venous thrombosis and venous insufficiency
• Ultrasound guide compression maneurver as an alternative treatment for pseudoaneurysm
• Non-invasive vascular assessment
• ABPI/Toe (Finger) pressure/Walk Test
• Laser doppler flowmetry
• Head and Neck Service
• Head and Neck Oncology, eg. cancers of the oral cavity, hypopharynx, cervical, oesophagus etc
• Thyroid nodule evaluation and treatment of thyroid malignancies and associated disease
• Salivary gland disease especially malignancies
  
• Multi-disciplinary participation from Oral Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Radiotherapy