Modern surgery - top-rate professional and technical standard

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Senior Physician: Prof. Hubert J. Stein, MD
Phone: +49 911 398 2979

Nursing Service Management: Dean of Nursing Dirk Münch
Phone: +49 911 398 2546

Range of services include minimally invasive procedures and organ reconstruction:
	Fast track procedures in surgery
	Inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
	Cancer operations – laser therapy
	Surgery of the lungs
	Illnesses of the glandular organs
	Rectal surgery

Fast track procedures in surgery

The modern medical approach in the department for general, visceral und thoracic surgery offers a wide range of new operation methods which open up new possibilities of protecting the organs and preserving functions. They include minimally invasive operations in the abdomen, in the lungs or to the glands. Specially designed micro-instruments are used to operate through tiny cuts in the skin no more than just a few millimetres in size, under video control. This avoids large wounds, unattractive scars and unnecessary injuries to healthy tissue. Subsequent organ reconstruction work (substitute stomach, substitute rectum) also help to improve the quality of life after surgery.

Fast track – a new concept of peri-operative management in combination with the principles of modern surgery has verifiably resulted in significant reductions of post-operative problems (pain, nausea, lack of appetite) and clearly shorter recovery periods.

Inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract

• Routine use of minimally invasive techniques, for example the high-powered ultrasonic scalpel (Ultracision Ò).
• Special expertise in the fields of rectal and sphincter reconstruction procedures (pouch operation).
• The basic principle is: as little as possible, as much as necessary

Cancer operations – laser therapy

• Gentle therapy to preserve organs using the so-called video endoscope and micro-instruments.
• Reconstruction of the organ functions (substitute stomach, substitute rectum).
• Creation of an artificial anus now only necessary in exceptional cases.
• Focal treatment concentrating on tumours of the stomach, oesophagus, small/large bowel, liver and bile duct together with the pancreas.
• Verified national and international expertise in the laser treatment of secondaries (liver secondaries).

Surgery of the lungs

• New concept for the treatment of lung diseases on a joint internal and surgical ward.
• Therapy and diagnosis "from one source".
• The emphasis is on minimally invasive video endoscopic operations in the thorax and lungs.

Illnesses of the glandular organs

• State-of-the-art chemical laboratory and surgical procedures
• Electrophysiological monitoring of the vocal cord nerves for goitre operations to the thyroid gland
• Use of magnifying glasses and bipolar coagulation systems (for haemostasis).
• Minimally invasive techniques are meanwhile the routine approach for surgery to the parathyroid glands and adrenal glands .
• Intra-operative rapid definition of the hormone level (Turbo assay).

Rectal surgery

• Differentiated conservative and operative therapies for treating haemorrhoids, haemorrhoidal thrombosis, anal fistulas, abscesses and fissures
• Modern functional diagnosis with recto/proctoscopy, anal and rectal endosonography, sphincter manometry and defaecography.
• Therapy for bowel incontinence. Conservative (bio feedback training, stimulation current therapy) and operative (reconstructive pelvic surgery, minimally invasive resection rectopexy, neuro-stimulated gracilis transplant).