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Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative intervention. Its practitioners are referred to as surgeons.

History of surgery

The first surgical procedures were Key Environmental Inc performed in the Neolithic Age (about 10,000 to 6000 BC). Trepanning, a procedure in which a hole is drilled in the skull to relieve pressure on the brain, may have been performed as early as 8000 BC. More on History of Surgery

Common surgical procedures

Of the eight most common surgical procedures in the US, four are obstetric: episiotomy, repair of obstetric laceration, cesarean section, and artificial rupture of the amniotic membrane.

According to 1996 data from the US National Center for Health Statistics, 40.3 million inpatient surgical procedures were performed in the United States in 1996, followed closely by 31.5 million outpatient surgeries.

List of orthopedic surgical procedures

• acromioplasty

• adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder

• ankle replacement

• anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

• anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

• anterior interval release

• arthrodesis

• arthroplasty

• arthroscopy

• arthrotomy

• articular cartilage repair

• articular cartilage stem cell paste grafting

• astragalectomy

• autologous chondrocyte implantation

• autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane

• autologous matrix induced chondrogenesis

• autotransplantation

• beevor's axiom

• bone cement

• bone grafting

• brostr

• brunelli procedure

• buddy wrapping

• bursectomy

• chondroplasty

• coccygectomy

• computer assisted orthopedic surgery

• corpectomy

• corticotomy

• cotrel

• darrach's procedure

• depuy hip recall

• disc biacuplasty

• distraction osteogenesis

• dubousset instrumentation

• dynamic compression plate

• dynamic hip screw

• eden lange procedure

• epiphysiodesis

• evans technique

• external fixation

• femoral head ostectomy

• femoral neck targeting

• finger joint replacement

• fixation

• foot and ankle surgery

• foraminotomy

• four corner fusion

• gaenslen's test

• gait analysis

• hand surgery

• harrington rod

• high tibial osteotomy

• hip arthroscopy

• hip replacement

• hip resurfacing

• hippocratic bench

• hubscher's maneuver

• instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion

• internal fixation

• interspinous process decompression

• intervertebral disc arthroplasty

• joint replacement

• knee cartilage replacement therapy

• knee replacement

• krukenberg procedure

• labral reconstruction

• laminectomy

• laminoplasty

• laminotomy

• lateral release

• ligamentotaxis

• m procedure

• manual therapy

• meniscal cartilage replacement therapy

• meniscus transplant

• microfracture surgery

• microsurgical lumbar laminoplasty

• mumford procedure

• nuffield orthopaedic centre

• ostectomy

• osteolysis

• osteostimulation

• osteotomy

• patrick's test

• pedorthist

• percutaneous pinning

• periosteal reaction

• phemister graft

• piezoelectric surgery

• ponseti method

• postarthroscopic glenohumeral chondrolysis

• prolotherapy

• reduction

• reverse shoulder replacement

• rotationplasty

• sail sign of the chest

• schilling tendon procedure

• shoulder replacement

• shoulder surgery

• spinal fusion

• sulcoplasty

• surgery

• surgery for temporomandibular joint dysfunction

• surgical

• synovectomy

• taylor spatial frame

• team physician

• tendon transfer

• tension band wiring

• tessys method

• triple arthrodesis

• ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction

• unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

• university orthopaedic center

• vertebral augmentation

• vertebral fixation

• weight bearing

• wrist arthroscopy

Noted surgeons

• David Hayes Agnew
• Christiaan Barnard
• Joaquín Barraquer
• Norman Bethune (1890-1939), battlefield surgery.
• Theodor Billroth, stomach resection
• Ben Carson
• William Cheselden
• Realdo Colombo (c. 1516-1559)
• Abraham Colles (1773-1843)
• Astley Cooper
• Michael E. DeBakey
• William deVries
• Cornelius Fred
• William Jardine
• Walter Karl Koch
• Joseph Lister
• Robert Liston
• Sushruta
• Ferdinand Sauerbruch, thoracic surgery
• George H. Tichenor

Dictionaries and Glossaries

• Dictionary of surgery

See also

• medicine, biomaterial
• General Surgery, plastic surgery, Abdominal surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Traumatology, Sexual reassignment surgery, dental surgery
• List of surgical procedures

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