What is Minor Surgery?
In general terms, surgery is the term traditionally used for treatments that involve cutting or stitching tissue. However, advances in surgical techniques have made the definition more complicated: Sometimes lasers, ultracisions, rather than scalpels, are used to cut tissue.
Surgery is a broad area of care and involves many different techniques.
Here are a few definitions:
Minor surgery – any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance during the surgical procedure, – a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body ( Ex. Hemorhoids, Tissue necrosis in abscess, etc.) This just requires a little local anesthetic and a few minutes of your time.
Major surgery – any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance. Minor surgery can involve the use of local, regional anesthesia. (We do not perform this here )
Which conditions can be treated? Under Local Anesthesia
- Skin tags/Skin Biopsy
- Skin cyst,Abscess
- Incision and Drainage of an Abscess
- Warts (Verruca) destruction treatment
- Mole removal
- Biopsy of growths
- Verruccae
- Benign skin naevi
- Hairy moles
- Molluscum warts
- Penile & vaginal warts
- Spider veins
- Hemorrhoids excision treatment
- In-growing toe nails
- Lipomas/Fatty tumors
- Pre-cancerous and cancerous skin lesions
- Laceration and Incision Repair of Skin & Soft Tissue
- Leg vein treatment
- Joint injections
- Trigger point injections
- Anal Fissure/Lateral Sphicterotomy
- Pilonidal Cyst and Abscess
- Dorsal Slit for Phimosis
- Breast Biopsy/Endometrial Biopsy Sample
- Bartholoin’s Cyst/Abscess
- Vulvar Biopsy/ Cervical Polyps
- Cervical Loop Excision Biopsy
- Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology and Biopsy
- Burn Treatment
- Foreign Body Removal from skin and soft tissue and many more conditions…