Open Surgery
Listed below are procedures that are not always carried out using laparoscopic surgery
Outpatient Procedures
- Excision of skin lesions
- Rigid Sigmoidoscopy
- Banding or injection of haemorrhoids
- Aspiration cytology of lump or cyst
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
- Small bowel resection
- Splenectomy
- Surgery for peptic ulceration
- Open femoral or inguinal hernia repair (under local anaesthesia)
Colorectal Surgery
- Right hemicolectomy
- Left hemicolectomy
- Sigmoid colectomy
- Anterior resection of rectum
- Abdominoperoneal resection of rectum
- Peroneal repair of rectal prolapse
- Surgery for haemorrhoids
- Surgery for anorectal sepsis
- Anorectal fistula surgery
- Pilonidal sinus
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