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Introduction: Surgery
Surgery has traditionally referred to the cutting out or reconstruction
of physical parts of the body.
The tool usually used is the scalpel, a very sharp knife-like blade.
However, newer technology has changed the face of surgery,
and a number of newer methods of surgery have been developed including:
- Cryosurgery - the use of freezing cold to "burn" off tissue.
- Electrocautery - the use of electricity
- Laparoscopic surgery (Keyhole surgery) - surgery performed through a small opening into the body,
rather than fully opening the body with a large incision.
- Laser surgery - the use of focused high-intensity laser light as a cutting blade.
- Microsurgery - the use of surgery through a microscope
The specialist who performs surgery is usually a surgeon.
Particular types of surgeons specialize in certain specialist types of surgery.
However, some simple types of surgery may be performed by your general practitioner.
Descriptions of Surgery
Surgery: A procedure to remove or repair a part of the body or to find out whether disease is present. An operation.
Source: National Institute of Health
Surgery : branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by manual and instrumental means.
Source: CRISP
Basic Information: Surgery
Count: Surgery is listed as a:
treatment for 390 conditions;
alternative treatment for 0 conditions;
preventive treatment for 0 conditions;
research treatment for 1 conditions.
Treatment types for Surgery:
radiosurgery (8), cryosurgery (8), open surgery (1), laparoscopic surgery (1)
Treatments: list of all treatments
List of Diseases with Surgery as a Treatment
The following list of conditions
have 'Surgery' or similar
listed as a treatment in our database:
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- Cancer
... Surgery
- Celiac artery stenosis from compression by median arcuate ligament of diaphragm
... surgery
- Cerebral Aneurysm
... surgery
- Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
... surgery
- Cerebrovascular Conditions
... Surgery
- Cervical Cancer
... surgery, cryosurgery
- Cervical Spondylosis
... surgery
- Chalazion
... surgery
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
... surgery
- Cholelithiasis
... surgery
- Chondrosarcoma
... surgery
- Classical Hodgkin disease
... Surgery
- Clubfoot
... surgery
- Collapsed lung
... surgery
- Colonic Inertia
... surgery
- Colorectal cancer
... surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 1
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 10
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 11
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 2
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 3
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 4
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 5
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 6
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 7
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 8
... Surgery
- Colorectal Cancer, Susceptibility to, 9
... Surgery
- Colorectal Polyps
... surgery
- Complex partial seizure disorder
... surgery
- Congenital bronchogenic cyst
... surgery
- Conn's adenoma
... Surgery
- Conn's syndrome
... Surgery
- Conn-Louis Carcinoma
... Surgery
- COPD
... Surgery
- Coronary heart disease
... surgery
- Craniosynostosis
... surgery
- Crohn's disease
... Surgical treatments
- Cryptorchidism
... surgery
- Cushing's syndrome
... surgery
- Cutaneous desmoplastic melanoma
... Surgery
- Cystocele
... surgery
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- Neck Arthritis
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 1
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 2
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 3
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 4
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 5
... Surgery
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 6
... Surgery
- Neurocysticercosis
... surgery
- Nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's lymphoma
... Surgery
- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
... surgery
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- Pancreatic cancer
... Surgery
- Panniculitis
... surgery
- Perforated eardrum
... surgery
- Peripheral vascular disease
... surgery
- Perisylvian syndrome
... Surgery
- Peritonitis
... Surgery
- Peyronie's disease
... surgery
- Pheochromocytoma
... surgery
- Pinched Nerve
... surgery
- Plasmacytoma anaplastic
... Surgery
- Pleural cancer
... Surgery
- Pneumothorax
... surgery
- Polyarthritis
... surgery
- Polymicrogyria
... Surgery
- Polymicrogyria, Asymmetric
... Surgery
- Polymicrogyria, Bilateral Frontal
... Surgery
- Polymicrogyria, Bilateral Frontoparietal
... Surgery
- Polymicrogyria, Bilateral Generalized
... Surgery
- Polymicrogyria, Bilateral Parasagittal Parieto-Occipital
... Surgery
- Proliferating trichilemmal cyst
... surgery
- Prostate Cancer
... surgery
- Prostate stones
... Surgery
- Proximal colorectal cancer
... Surgery
- Pseudotumor Cerebri
... Surgery
- Pterygium of the conjunctiva
... surgery
- Pulmonary artery coming from the aorta
... surgery
- Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect
... surgery
- Pyloric stenosis, infantile hypertrophic, 1
... surgery
- Pyloric stenosis, infantile hypertrophic, 2
... surgery
- Pyloric stenosis, infantile hypertrophic, 3
... surgery
- Pyloric stenosis, infantile hypertrophic, 4
... surgery
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List of Diseases with Surgery as a Research Treatment
The following list of conditions
have 'Surgery' or similar
listed as a research treatment or other research area in our database:
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