Surgery (from the Greek: χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via Latin: chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason. An act of performing...
Surgery
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Used To Treat:
- Cancer
- Parkinson's disease
- Bladder cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Melanoma
- Endometrial cancer
- Lung cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Kidney cancer
Hospitals with this Specialty:
- Mary Shiels Hospital
- Southwest Surgical Hospital
- Baylor Medical Center at Trophy Club
- Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital
- First Street Hospital
- Physicians Surgical Hospital of Quail Creek
- Summit Hospital
- Alliance Hospital
- Northwest Texas Surgery Center
- Kingwood Pines Hospital