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Finding a Surgeon
Finding a surgeon refers to the process of choosing a doctor with specialized training in one or more branches of surgery to perform a specific...

Gastroenterologic Surgery
Gastroenterologic surgery includes a variety of surgical procedures performed on the organs and conduits of the digestive system. These procedures...

Choosing a Surgeon
While you will probably not be golfing with him or her anytime soon (nor would you likely want to!), you should learn a few things about the person...

Choosing a Surgery Specialist
While you will probably not be golfing with him or her anytime soon (nor would you likely want to!), you should learn a few things about the person...

Possible Complications during Gastric Bypass Surgery
If you are considering gastric bypass surgery, you should consider the various complications that can occur during and after the procedure. As with...

Complications that May Occur after Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric bypass surgery can bring weight loss to those that cannot achieve it through diet and exercise. Compared to other weight loss surgeries,...

Preparing For Surgery: Preoperative Studies
Many people do not realize that there are a great number of things that need to occur well in advance of the day of surgery. There are a number of...

Upper Endoscopy and Colonoscopy
If you are told that you need to have an upper endoscopy, colonoscopy or both, there are certain things that you should be aware of before the day...

What Do I Need to Know About Endoscopy?
In medicine, the term endoscopy can be used in several ways depending on the specific procedure. In general terms, endoscopy refers to a procedure...

Surgery Demographics – Security and Confidentiality
Surgery demographics are the statistics compiled about the age, gender, race and other characteristics of those undergoing surgery. Essentially surgery...

Surgery Recovery Period
The period after your surgery, called the recovery period, is a very important part of your overall surgical experience. The ease with which you...

Treating Prostate Cancer - Prostate Brachytherapy
The prostate is gland about the size and shape of a walnut that serves a number of urinary and reproductive functions in men. Unfortunately the prostate...

Foreign Body Removal
As unlikely as it may sound, foreign body removal is actually a very common procedure in emergency departments, after-hours clinics, and pediatrician...

Antireflux Surgery Information
Gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD affects millions of Americans. In most cases, the disease can be controlled with medical (drug) therapy. In more...

Lumbar Sympathectomy Surgery
The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for controlling many of the processes in the body that we do not consciously or routinely think about....

One Day Surgery
Day surgery refers to a surgical procedure that takes place in a single working day, from preoperative preparation, the surgical procedure, postoperative...

Minimally Invasive Surgery
There are two main ways to think about minimally invasive surgery: as a collection of minimally invasive surgical procedures and as a way of approaching...

Fistulotomy Info
A fistula is an abnormal connection between two organs or tissues. A fistula can occur virtually anywhere in the body, but it most often occurs between...

Removal of the Stomach - Gastrectomy
Gastrectomy can be performed as part or bariatric or weight loss surgery, but in this article we discuss gastrectomy surgery as its own separate surgical...

Chronic Pancreatitis Surgery - Puestow Procedure
Chronic pancreatitis can be an extremely painful, life-long disease. Various medical interventions, such as replacement pancreatic enzymes can work...

Collapsed Lung Treatment - Pleurodesis Procedure
Under normal circumstances, the lungs fill nearly the entire chest. The outer surface of the lungs rests right against the inner surface of the rib...

Reducing Recovery Times - The Nuss Procedure
The Nuss procedure was developed as a minimally invasive treatment for the most common chest deformity known as pectus excavatum. Pectus excavatum,...

Sphincterotomy Info
A sphincter is a muscular structure that temporarily blocks the flow of biological substances. There are many examples of sphincters in the body. When...

Excision Surgery Information
According to Stedman's Medical Dictionary, the primary definition of excision is "the act of cutting out; the surgical removal of part or all of a...

Surgical Instruments Info - Surgical Graspers
Very few maneuvers in surgery are done without some sort of surgical instrument. Each step in a surgery-from initial incision to the final suture-is...

Surgical Instruments Info - Surgical Retractors
The longstanding joke among surgeons is that the best surgical retractors are third year medical students. This joke, based on a sad daily reality,...