General Surgery
Find out more: “General surgery” refers to the branch of surgery that deals with resolving or improving the prognosis of pathologies affecting the organs of the abdominal cavity – intestine, colon, liver, stomach, oesophagus, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts – as well as to the breast and thyroid. The general surgeon is a doctor specialised in surgical operations conducted on the breast, thyroid or one of the organs of the abdominal cavity, whose objective is to cure or improve the prognosis of pathologies affecting these organs.