GENERAL SURGERY

General surgery as a medical specialty includes the description, etiology and treatment of pathological conditions or diseases that can be treated surgically by applying various surgical methods and surgical techniques.

The beginning of the operative act in man is lost in the distant past of the human race. In the medicine of the ancient peoples, Chinese, Indians up to Hippocratic medicine, the forerunner of the so-called western medicine there are data and descriptions of operative acts for the treatment of various diseases, wounds or repair of deformities.

General surgery, as it stands today, regards abdominal surgery (wall, intra-abdominal organs and septum), esophageal, endocrine gland surgery (excluding the pituitary), breast, trauma surgery and surgery of soft molecules.

In recent decades, with the development of technology in medical science and the abundance of knowledge on various diseases, general surgery has changed following the path of specialization and minimally invasive techniques, such as laparoscopic surgery.