General Surgery

Israeli surgeons are well-known all over the world for their professional, innovative and highly effective treatment methods. Every year, thousands of patients from different countries of the world visit Israel to get a minimum invasive treatment.

General surgeons perform consultation, accurate diagnostic procedures and surgeries on medical conditions involving the breast, endocrine system, gastrointestinal tract, colon, liver, pancreas and rectum. Israeli general surgeons are recognized as one of the most experienced groups in the world providing innovative treatment methods, that also comprises close collaboration with other specialists who are involved in each patient’s care, to diagnose and provide timely surgical intervention for complex conditions.

Robotic Surgery

The DaVinci robotic system that is widely used in gynecologic surgery, allowing specialists to perform advanced laparoscopic operations using a surgeon’s console connected to three robotic arms. It is one the latest and newest technologies available for the treatment of gynecologic cancer and other severe conditions. The robotic system is used to assist with a variety of complex, minimally-invasive laparoscopic operations for benign and malignant female pelvic conditions, such as cancer of the uterus and cervix.

The DaVinci system plenty of benefits for laparoscopic surgery along with increased precision and effectiveness. An accurate and precise moves ensure an effective and positive final result. Patients undergoing laproscopic procedures normally experience less pain, have smaller number of infection and recover more quickly than those undergoing open surgery.

Many difficult laparoscopic procedures, such as laparoscopic suturing, can be provided in a simpler manner by the robot. Due to its 3-D visualization and increased instrument maneuverability surgeon performs steady and confident moves producing no-stress situations during the whole process.

Minimally invasive surgery

minimally invasive surgery are characterized with a large variety of modern techniques that helps to operate a patient with less body damage in comparison with a regular open surgery. As a rule, low or minimally invasive surgery is associated with less pain, a shorter hospital stays and fewer post-surgery complications.

While providing a laparoscopy surgery, the specialist makes one or more small incisions, inserts small tubes and tiny cameras to the necessary body part and performs highly exact and fast moves. Another type of minimally invasive surgery is robotic surgery. It provides a magnified, 3-D view of the surgical site and helps the surgeon to operate with maximum precision, flexibility and control.

Persistent innovations in the field of minimally invasive surgery make it beneficial for people with a wide range of severe conditions who are forbidden to take regular open surgery. If you need surgery and think you may be a candidate for this approach, feel free to contact your doctor.

Types of minimally invasive surgery

Surgeons perform many minimally invasive surgeries, including:

• Adrenalectomy to remove one or both adrenal glands
• Anti-reflux surgery, sometimes called hiatal hernia repair, to relieve gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
• Cancer surgery, for example, to destroy a tumor
• Chest (thoracic) surgery
• Cholecystectomy, to remove gallstones that cause pain
• Colectomy to remove parts of a diseased colon
• Colon and rectal surgery
• Ear, nose and throat surgery
• Endovascular surgery to treat or repair an aneurysm
• Gallbladder surgery (cholecystectomy) to remove gallstones that cause pain
• Gastroenterologic surgery, including for gastric bypass
• General surgery
• Gynecologic surgery
• Heart surgery
• Kidney surgery
• Living donor kidney transplant
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopedic surgery
• Splenectomy to remove the spleen
• Thoracic surgery, such as video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy
• Urologic surgery

Surgeons in the Section of General Surgery have extensive experience. The department has particular expertise in managing complex surgical conditions of the breast and endocrine organs, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and surgical oncology, including melanoma.

• Conditions Treated
• Stomach
• Cancer
• GI stromal tumors
• Lymphoma
• Peptic ulcer
• Gastroparesis and postgastrectomy syndromes
• Liver
• Primary and metastatic liver tumors
• Intrahepatic and hilar cholangiocarcinoma
• Benign tumors and cysts
• Surgical shunts for portal hypertension
• Biliary Tree
• Gallstones laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Benign biliary strictures
• Cancer of the gallbladder
• Extrahepatic bile duct cancer
• Pancreas
• Pancreatic and periampullary cancer
• Islet cell tumors
• Functioning
• Insulinoma
• Gastrinoma
• VIPoma
• Glucagonoma
• Nonfunctioning
• Acute and chronic pancreatitis
• Cystic tumors of the pancreas
• Serous cystadenoma
• Mucinous cystadenoma
• Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm
• Spleen
• Open and minimally invasive splenectomy
• Small Intestine
• Malignant tumors of the small intestine
• Villous tumors of the duodenum
• Diverticula
• Obstruction and fistulae
• Colon
• Diverticulitis
• Colon cancer
• Disease of the appendix
• Abdomen
• Retroperitoneal tumors
• Ventral hernia (open and laparoscopic)
• Incisional hernia (open and laparoscopic)
• Inguinal hernia (open and laparoscopic)
• Femoral hernia
• Endocrine
• Thyroid: nodules, cysts, cancer, hyperthyroidism
• Parathyroid: parathyroidectomy (standard and minimally invasive)
• Adrenal
• Cushing syndrome
• Pheochromocytoma (open and minimally invasive)
• Adenoma (open and minimally invasive)
• Aldosteronoma (open and minimally invasive)
• Cancer
• Breast
• Cysts, lumps, cancer, nipple discharge
• Breast-conserving surgery
• Mastectomy
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy
• Axillary dissection
• Melanoma
• Primary tumor excision
• Sentinel node biopsy
• Node dissection