Generally general surgery refers to the surgery that treats diseases of the gastrointestinal, anorectal, hepatobiliary, thyroid, breast, and peripheral vascular diseases. Surgeries include thyroid surgery, breast surgery, peripheral vascular surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, abdominal wall surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, and anorectal surgery.
Generally speaking the surgery done by general surgery are:
1. Thyroid surgery: thyroid adenoma resection, thyroid major resection, radical thyroid cancer surgery, etc.
2. Breast surgery: such as radical mastectomy for breast cancer, incision and drainage of breast abscess, mastectomy for breast fibroma, etc.
3. Peripheral vascular surgery: high ligation and stripping surgery for varicose vein of great saphenous vein, endoluminal isolation surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm, and so on.
4. Gastrointestinal surgery: such as gastric perforation repair, appendicitis resection, radical gastric cancer surgery, radical colon cancer surgery, intestinal adhesion release surgery, etc.
5. Abdominal wall surgery: inguinal hernia repair, incisional hernia repair, abdominal wall tumor resection, etc.
6. Hepatobiliary surgery: such as radical hepatic cancer surgery, cholecystectomy, biliary tract stone removal, splenectomy and so on.
7. Anorectal surgery: such as hemorrhoidal external stripping and internal ligation, anal fistula hanging, perianal abscess incision and drainage, rectal cancer radical surgery, and so on.
8. Abdominal trauma surgery: such as gastrointestinal rupture repair, liver rupture repair.
9. Others: such as pediatric abdominal congenital disease surgery, retroperitoneal tumor resection and so on.