Open Surgery

Listed below are procedures that are not always carried out using laparoscopic surgery

Outpatient Procedures

• Excision of skin lesions
• Rigid Sigmoidoscopy
• Banding or injection of haemorrhoids
• Aspiration cytology of lump or cyst
  

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

• Small bowel resection
• Splenectomy
• Surgery for peptic ulceration
• Open femoral or inguinal hernia repair (under local anaesthesia)

Colorectal Surgery

• Right hemicolectomy
• Left hemicolectomy
• Sigmoid colectomy
• Anterior resection of rectum
• Abdominoperoneal resection of rectum
• Peroneal repair of rectal prolapse
• Surgery for haemorrhoids
• Surgery for anorectal sepsis
• Anorectal fistula surgery
• Pilonidal sinus