General surgery generally includes hepatobiliary surgery, pancreatic surgery, extrasplenic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, anorectal surgery, vascular surgery, breast and thyroid surgery, and abdominal surgery. Secondary hospitals may also include chest and abdomen and urology. If the level of hospitals is higher, such as 3A hospitals, some provincial capital cities, Shanghai, Beijing and other big hospitals, general surgery has been subdivided into hepatobiliary surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, anorectal surgery, spleen surgery, vascular surgery, abdominal surgery, thyroid surgery, breast surgery, and some even subdivided into colorectal surgery and gastric surgery.
General surgery is a clinical discipline that mainly treats liver, biliary tract, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, anorectal diseases, vascular diseases, thyroid and breast tumors and trauma, and it is the largest specialty in the surgical system.
General surgery is general surgery, and general hospital surgery includes orthopedics, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, urology and so on. Some hospitals even divide general surgery into cervical breast surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, hepatobiliary, pancreatic and splenic surgery. There are anorectal surgery, burn plastic surgery, vascular surgery, pediatric surgery, transplant surgery, nutrition and so on.
Major disease
Generally speaking, general surgery includes the following diseases:
First, neck diseases, such as neck injuries and thyroid diseases.
Second, breast diseases, such as breast cancer, breast cyst, breast abscess, breast fibroma and so on.
Third, peripheral vascular diseases, such as varicose veins of lower limbs.
Fourth, abdominal wall diseases, such as inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia, incisional hernia and so on.
Five, abdominal emergency, such as trauma, peritonitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc.
Six, gastrointestinal diseases, such as gastric perforation, appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, gastric cancer, colon cancer and so on.
Anorectal diseases, such as hemorrhoids, anal fistula, colorectal cancer, etc.
Eight, hepatobiliary pancreatic spleen diseases, such as end-stage liver disease, liver cancer, cholecystitis, gallstones, pancreatitis, portal hypertension, splenomegaly, etc.
Nine, others, such as congenital abdominal diseases in children, retroperitoneal tumors, etc.
In addition, general surgery is closely related to the basic knowledge of surgery, such as wound repair, burns, electric injuries, animal bites, surgical infections, tumors, shock, aseptic principle, blood transfusion, body fluid balance, enteral and parenteral nutrition, critical organ failure, ICU, transplantation, microscopic examination, reduction, body surface tumors and so on.
In some hospitals, anorectal, burn plastic surgery, vascular surgery, pediatric surgery, transplant surgery and nutrition were originally developed from general surgery.