Innayat Medical Updated on - Dec 18, 2023

General Surgery Treatment & Top General Surgery Hospitals in India

General surgery is a surgical specialty completely focusing on the surgical procedures to treat various diseases including appendix, stomach, liver, intestines, alimentary canal, liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts, thyroid glands and other organs..

General surgeries are conducted usually to treat or operate on hernias, gallbladder problems, gastrointestinal illnesses and many more. This involves major procedures to minor procedures like laparoscopy, appendectomy, coronary artery bypass, breast biopsy or mastectomy and the improvement in technology improved the treatment quality greatly relieving the patients.

List of Top 10 Best General Surgery Hospitals in India

• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
• Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
• Fortis Hospital, Mumbai
• Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi
• Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore
• Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon
• Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
• Narayana Health, Bangalore
• Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon
• Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai

Most common diseases and conditions necessitating General Surgery

• Appendicitis: The inflammation to the appendix which should be removed through surgery within 24 hours of the inflammation in most cases to reduce the severity.
• Gallstones: The stones can be removed from the gallbladder or in some necessary case the complete gall bladder can be removed depending on the situation.
• Hernias: To heal the tissue that is herniated conditions like bulge, swelling, or pain causing obstruction in the bowel movements and vomiting, nausea requires surgery in most cases.
• Gastrointestinal Disorders: Surgery is required for most gastrointestinal disorders like abdominal pain, constipation, feeding intolerance, vomiting and malnutrition in diseases like polyps, celiac disease, Crohn disease and so on.
• Cancers and Tumors: Surgeries are necessary in most of the cancer treatments to remove the concentrated tumor or complete organs depending on the spread of the tumor.
• Thyroid Disorders: Goiters, thyroid cancer, and thyroid nodules may require surgery.
• Pancreatitis: To remove damaged tissue or to treat the pancreatitis most cases required surgery.
• Perforated Peptic Ulcers: Surgery is the most required treatment to close the duodenum perforation  or stomach to heal the ulcer.
• Abdominal Trauma: To heal the internal damage in patients with abdominal injuries surgery is most required treatment.

Common procedures involving General Surgery

Here is the list of the few tests and treatments under General Surgery:

• Appendectomy: It’s a surgical procedure of removing the appendix required in appendicitis.
• Cholecystectomy: Removing of the gallbladder during inflammation or condition of gallstones in gallbladder.
• Hernia Repair: Inguinal, umbilical and hiatal hernias treatments required surgery and post-surgical treatment methods.
• Colon Resection: Removing the colon to treat diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease colon resection is done through surgery.
• Thyroidectomy: Thyroid gland needs to be removed in some cases where issues like goiters, thyroid cancer or nodules are involved through surgery.
• Mastectomy: It’s a surgical procedure required in some cases of breast cancer where the entire breast is removed.
• Gastrectomy: When the serious condition like severe peptic ulcers or stomach cancer issues, surgery called gastrectomy is required to be done to take out the all or part of the stomach.
• Colectomy: While dealing with diseases like colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease or diverticulitis surgery is done to remove the part or all of the colon.
• Esophagectomy: Cases with severe reflux disease or esophageal cancer surgery is advised and it can be with the entire or part of the esophagus removed.
• Laparoscopic surgery: Some procedure like appendix removal, gallbladder removal and hernia repair a small camera is inserted making a small incision.
• Soft Tissue Procedures: To deal with tumors, cysts or masses in soft tissues surgeries are performed to remove them.
• Emergency Abdominal Surgery: In severe situations like abdominal injuries, perforated ulcers or colon obstruction emergency surgery is most required.