Centre for Gut, Liver and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery

We provide the following services:

GENERAL AND DIAGNOSTICS

•	clinical consultation for general surgery and digestive diseases
•	screening for esophageal, stomach, liver, pancreas and colorectal cancers
•	family screening for cancer
•	fecal occult blood test for colorectal cancer
•	urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori
•	weight loss management including surgery for obesity

GENERAL SURGERY

•	excision of skin and superficial lumps
•	lymph node biopsy
•	salivary gland (submandibular and parotid gland) surgery
•	thyroid and parathyroid gland surgery
•	surgery for peri-anal conditions (including piles, fissures and fistulas)
•	hydrocele and varicocele surgery
•	circumcision

ENDOSCOPY

•	gastroscopy and colonoscopy for diagnosis and cancer screening
•	therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy
•	diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography)

GUT & LIVER SURGERY

•	emergency abdominal surgery for acute abdomen and bowel obstruction
•	esophageal surgery for benign disease and cancer
•	stomach surgery for ulcer and cancer
•	surgery for malignant and benign biliary stricture
•	excision of choledochal cyst
•	liver resection for benign and malignant liver tumors (primary and secondary liver cancers)
•	surgery for liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension (devascularisation and portal-systemic shunt)
•	surgical treatment for acute and chronic pancreatitis
•	pancreatic resection for benign disease and cancer
•	excision of retroperitoneal tumor
•	colon and rectum resection for benign disease and cancer
•	cytoreductive surgery, peritonectomy and intraperitoneal chemotherapy for appendiceal, abdominal and peritoneal cancers

LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY

•	laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair
•	laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernia repair
•	laparoscopic appendicectomy
•	laparoscopy for diagnosis of chronic abdominal pain
•	laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasound for staging of abdominal cancers
•	laparoscopic gastric bypass and palliation of advanced cancer
•	laparoscopic stoma creation and insertion of feeding tubes
•	laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones and acute cholecystitis
•	laparoscopic bile duct exploration for bile duct stones
•	laparoscopic drainage of liver abscess
•	laparoscopic deroofing of liver cyst
•	laparoscopic local ablative therapy of liver tumors
•	laparoscopic splenectomy
•	laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy for benign & low grade malignant tumor
•	laparoscopic adrenalectomy
•	laparoscopic gastric resection for gastric polyps and tumors
•	laparoscopic vagotomy and bypass for peptic ulcers
•	laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for stomach cancer
•	laparoscopic myotomy for achalasia
•	laparoscopic fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux
•	laparoscopic gastric banding for morbid obesity
•	thoracoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer
•	thoracoscopic sympathectomy for sweaty palms
•	endoscopic thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules
•	endoscopic and minimal access parathyroid surgery