What is visceral surgery?

Visceral surgery is a young specialty that from general surgery as an in-depth discipline with a focus on the internal organs of the breast—, abdominal cavity and the hormone-producing organs with their diseases and their surgical therapies.

The specialization was due to the rapid development of surgical, especially minimally invasive techniques , such as keyhole surgery—laparoscopy—and "single access surgery", such as SILS (single incision laparoascopic surgery) necessary. The latter procedures are new and also place the highest demands on surgeons with experience in laparoscopy, since abdominal operations of various sizes are performed via a single access, usually via the navel—that is, later scar-free and virtually invisible.

Not only the new, minimally invasive and minimally traumatizing techniques, which bring decisive advantages for the patient in terms of pain, scars and hospitalization, have made this development necessary, but also the increasingly complex tumor treatment. Here, too, visceral surgery has one of its focuses namely in the diagnosis, strategic and individually tailored planning and treatment of organs in the abdominal cavity affected by cancer.

The aim is to be able to offer patients the best possible and cutting-edge therapy for organs from the diaphragm to the pelvic floor, including the thyroid gland on the neck, with the field of visceral surgery as an in-depth specialist discipline.

At the same time, the minimally invasive techniques significantly reduce tissue trauma so that the pain after an operation is kept to a minimum, the length of stay and hospital stay are shortened and the scars are kept as small and invisible as possible.