Open Surgery

Listed below are procedures that are not carried out using laparoscopic surgery or may be performed open as an alternative to laparoscopic surgery.

Outpatient Procedures

• Excision of skin lesions
• Rigid Sigmoidoscopy
• Banding of haemorrhoids
• Aspiration cytology of lump or cyst
  

Gastrointestinal Surgery

• Surgery for inflamatory bowel disease
• Small bowel resection
• Surgery for peptic ulceration

Hernia Surgery

• Open femoral or inguinal hernia repair
• Incisional hernia repair
• Umbilical and paraumbilical hernia repair

Colorectal Surgery

• Right hemicolectomy
• Left hemicolectomy
• Sigmoid colectomy
• Surgery for haemorrhoids
• Surgery for anorectal sepsis
• Pilonidal sinus