General Surgery

General surgery is a technical discipline which covers general principals (such as wound healing, metabolic and endocrine response to wounding), in addition to treatment of systemic  and local problems with surgical methods and which effected developments of various branches of surgery and medicine.

Surgery is one of the oldest branches of medicine and base on the principal of surgical treatment diseases, injuries, deformations that cannot be treated with medications or returning the diseased organ to its appropriate form by performing an excision or extraction.

Types of operations are usually called by the organ or related system. Goitre (thyroidgland), breast, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus, hernias, liver, gallbladder, galltracts, endoscopic and laparoscopic surgical interventions are in coverage of General Surgery. General Surgery is also aims prevention from operation by protective medicine in some cases.

General Surgery Department Works together with many disciplines in coordination due to its wide coverage of interest. Majority of General Surgery patients are cancer cases of various types. For diagnosis, operation and planning consequent treatment phases of these patients, we work in collaboration with Gastroenterology, Radiology / Invasive Radiology, Pathology, Medical and Radiation Oncology.

In our General Surgery Departments in our hospitals, we approach the treatment by acknowledging a perspective that every patient is unique and by using advanced diagnosis-treatment methods that suits every patient. Medical and surgical treatment options offered by our Departments is performed by surgical teams who have a high level knowledge on advanced technological device and Professional experience.