In addition to traditional "open" surgery, we offer minimally invasive ("keyhole") surgery. This helps to minimise post-operative discomfort for the patients and drive shorter recovery times.
The service has a varied caseload, including:
- Abdominal surgery for removal or biopsy of tumours, investigation of vomiting and diarrhoea, removal of intestinal foreign bodies, treatment of urinary incontinence and more.
- Tumour surgery and wound management, including management of traumatic injuries such as road traffic accidents.
- Chest surgery, including lung lobectomy (taking out lung tissue that is diseased or damaged), PDA ligation (tying off blood vessels in the heart of young patients that haven’t properly closed off while in the womb) and pericardiectomy (taking out part of the sac surrounding the heart if it is diseased).
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