General Surgery

Maltepe University Faculty of Medicine Hospitals Department of General Surgery, with its expert team and modern equipment, provides services for the repair of diseases, injuries and structural disorders in the body that cannot be cured with drugs and other treatment methods.

The operations performed by general surgeons take their names from the organ where the operation is performed or from the system to which it is connected.

Areas of Surgery by the Department of General Surgery

• Small Bowel Surgery
• Large Intestine Surgery
• Goiter (Thyroid Gland) Surgery
• Esophagus Surgery
• Liver Surgery
• Gallbladder and Tracts Surgery
• Mastectomy
• Stomach Surgery
• Rectum Surgery
• Hernia Surgery
• Endoscopic Surgery
• Laparoscopic Surgery

Maltepe University Faculty of Medicine Hospitals Department of General Surgery continues to work in cooperation with many branches due to its wide area of responsibility.

The Department of General Surgery, which mostly deals with different types of cancer diseases, works with the departments of Pathology, Medical and Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Interventional Radiology and Gastroenterology for the diagnosis, surgery and subsequent treatment process of the disease.

Traumatology is another area of responsibility of the General Surgery Department. Particularly, General Surgery, which intervenes in multi-organ injuries, cooperates here with Urology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Cardiovascular Surgery departments.