The Cleveland Clinic Department of General Surgery provides evaluation and treatment for a full range of general surgery problems. Services are available in a variety of locations for patient convenience, including the downtown Main Campus as well as suburbs located in the northeast, east, south and west quadrants of the greater Cleveland area.
The breadth of surgical services includes hepatobiliary, transplant, surgical oncology and general surgery procedures. Moreover, the staff works closely with other medical specialties to provide optimal patient care. Collaboration with referring physicians is essential to patient management.
General Surgery staff perform a variety of procedures including, but not limited, to:
- Appendectomy
- Cholecystectomy
- Laparoscopic and Open Hernia Repair
- Inguinal
- Umbilical
- Incisional
- Hiatal
- Biopsy
- Esophagogastric Fundoplasty
- Laparoscopic Surgery
- Exploratory Surgery
- CAPP Catheter Placement
- Lipoma Excision
- EGO
