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Overview

The University of Rochester Medicine General Surgery Team offers a wide range of general surgery procedures using the most advanced minimally invasive techniques.

Abdominal wall reconstruction
Anorectal diseases
Appendectomy
Breast surgery
GI surgery
Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder removal)
Endoscopy
Hernia repair
Reflux surgery
Thyroid and Parathyroid surgery

Our Approach

New developments in minimally invasive general surgery techniques, such as laparoscopic surgery, mean smaller incisions to perform a procedure, so patients have a shorter hospital stay, smaller scars, less need for pain medication, and a faster recovery.

What Does "Laparoscopic" Surgery Mean?

It means more days with your family, and less in the hospital. It means getting back to work, to your hobbies, to your life. It means you and your community get the care you deserve.

Laparoscopy is a type of minimally invasive surgery. This means that the surgeons use smaller incisions to perform the procedure, so the patient will have a shorter hospital stay, smaller scars, less need for pain medication, and a faster recovery.

What Sets Us Apart?

URochester Medicine’s vast general surgical team extends to affiliated hospitals in the Rochester metropolitan area and surrounding region.

And our surgeons are leaders in their field, offering patients the newest technological advances in surgery, including the latest minimally invasive daVinci® Surgical Systems.