Visceral surgery

In this section, you find topics of general and visceral surgery. With the top navigation, you can browse through the categories or you can let yourself be inspired by one of our examples below.

Abdominal trauma In about 20% of polytraumatized patients the abdomen is involved by blunt or penetrating trauma. In central Europe, blunt trauma at 95% far outnumbers penetrating injuries.

Abdominal trauma

In about 20% of polytraumatized patients the abdomen is involved by blunt or penetrating trauma. In central Europe, blunt trauma at 95% far outnumbers penetrating injuries.

Gastric carcinoma

In gastric carcinoma, a DII Lymhnode-resection is standard. You don't know, what that is? No problem, we help you...

Reflux Disease – GERD

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disorder that affects up to 10% of the German population with chronic heartburn, its main symptom.

Acute abdomen

„Acute Abdomen“ is medical shorthand for a sudden onset of abdominal pain requiring immediate surgical intervention. The term should therefore be used with care and only if warranted by the severity of the clinical picture.

Inguinal hernia

A hernia is a protrusion of viscera through its peritoneal covering. This differentiates a hernia from a prolapse, in which inner organs without a peritoneal covering protrude, e.g. the rectum.

Rectal carcinoma A total mesorectal Exzision (TME) is standard nowadays in the therapy of rectal carcinoma

OR-Video Gastrektomie

OR-Video of a total gasrectomy

See this complex procedure in comprehensive step-by-step explantations

TEPP

Inguinal Hernias can be operated minimal invasive, using a trans-peritoneal or extra-peritoneal approach

Wound, Wound healing

Wounds are morphological or functional disturbances of tissue integrity. Wound healing occurs in three characteristic phases.

Interactive CT-Scan

Scroll or swipe through the images of an ileum

Corrosive esophagitis Ingestion of acids or lye can cause erosion of the esophagus.

Sigmoid diverticulitis

In most cases, a sigmoid diverticulitis can be operated on minimal invasive

Barrett-Metaplasy

As a rule of thumb about 10% of patients with chronic reflux develop Barrett’s metaplasia, and about 10% of these risk developing an invasive Barrett’s esophagus (cancer).

Bariatric surgery

Morbid obesity is a global burden. There are several very effective surgical procedures to reduce the weight and the risk of co-morbidities.

Jaundice Jaundice can be seen from 2,5 mg/dl Bilirubin in the blood sample

Jaundice

Do you know, what makes the patient yellow?

Zenkers diverticulum

Regurgitation of non-digested food is the principle symptom of Zenkers diverticulum.

Colon carcinoma Refresh your anatomy knowledge of the bowel

Adrenal gland tumors

Adenal gland tumors can be removed laparoscopically

Peptic ulcer

Before the introduction of proton pump inhibitors, the distal gastric resection often was the only treatment available for peptic ulcer disease.

Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis

Careful dissection using magnifying glasses with intraoperative neuromonitoring can help to lower the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis significantly

Thyroid cancer

Prognosis in papillary carcinoma is excellent thanks to modern therapy regimes

Achalasia Bei der Achalasie handelt es sich um eine Relaxierungsstörung des unteren Ösophagussphinkters. Es existieren konservative, operative und interventionelle Therapieoptionen

Infection

Infection, Sepsis, Intensive Therapy

Infection is defined as invasion of the body by microorganisms inducing the simultaneous localized or generalized defensive reaction of the body.

Interactive Operation Videos

Interactive OR-Videos

To give you an impression of visceral surgery, we added several interactive video galleries on our site. You can read comments on every step of the operations

Interactive CT-Scans

Interactive radiology findings

Interpreting radiology images ist not an easy task to undertake. In order to help you to understand the principle of radiologic findings and the underlying pathology, we added several interactive radiology findings. As an example, you see here an CT-Scan. To swipe through the images, you can use your finger or your desktop's computer mouse.

CT-Scan with a rupture of the diaphragm on the left side