Abdominal surgery

The visceral surgery (from Latin viscera = intestines ) also abdominal surgery and abdominal surgery, including the surgical treatment of abdominal organs, that is, the entire digestive tract, including the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, rectum, liver, the pancreas and the spleen. Furthermore, one of the surgical treatment of thyroid and parathyroid and the treatment of fractures and abdominal cavity transplantation of organs such as liver, kidney, pancreas and small intestine to abdominal surgery. Visceral Surgical diseases include acute injuries, tumors, infections and malformations of those bodies.

In recent years, minimally invasive surgery and particularly laparoscopic surgery consists in more and more areas of visceral surgery. In some regions of Germany are separated between the specialist further education " general surgery " and " abdominal surgery ". The common medical society is the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery.

The world's first successful gastrostomy Daniel Schwabe in 1635 in Königsberg i Pr.