Sentara Surgery Specialists offer various services in different locations.
Note: Not all services are offered at all locations.
Services Offered
- Laparoscopic/minimally invasive surgery
- Colon rectal surgery
- Bariatric surgery
- Breast surgery
- Surgical oncology
- Thoracic surgery
- Endocrine surgery
Incision and drainage of abscesses
- Office/operating room excisions, flap closure
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy (The first lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread from the primary tumor)
- Pilonidal cyst surgery
Breasts
- Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA), Core Needle Biopsy
- Lumpectomy, mastectomy
- Axillary dissection (Removing the lymph nodes under the arm)
Endocrine
- Thyroidectomy (removal of all or part of the thyroid gland)
- Parathyroidectomy (removal of one or more of the parathyroid glands that control the amount of calcium in the blood and within the bones)
- Open or laparoscopic adrenalectomy (removal of one of both adrenal glands – which help control the body’s metabolic process)
Hernias
- Umbilical hernias (normally appear near the navel)
- Open, laparoscopic or robotic inguinal hernias (lower abdomen)
- Open, laparoscopic or robotic ventral hernias (hernia that appears at the site of an incision scar)
- Open, laparoscopic or Da Vinci robotic assist, as well as single site Da Vinci Robotic assist
- Trans abdominal rectus release for recurrent ventral hernia
Gastrointestinal Tract (GI) Issues
- Laparoscopic or robotic nissen fundiplication (Procedure to Correct Acid Reflux [GERD])
- Open, laparoscopic or robotic assist cholecystectomy as well as single site Da Vinci Robotic assist (less invasive treatment for gallbladder removal)
- Small bowel resections (surgery to remove part of your small bowel)
- Gastric surgery
- Laparoscopic or Da Vinci Robotic Colectomy
- LINX® Reflux Management System (LINX procedure)
Colorectal surgery
- Hemorrhoid treatment (banding and IRC)
- Anal fissures
- Perirectal (anal) abscesses
- Condyloma (venereal warts)
- Colonoscopy
- Anal fistula treatment
- Colon cancer resection
- Rectal Cancer resection
- Crohn’s disease surgery
- Ulcerative colitis surgery
Advanced laparoscopy
- Lap splenectomy (spleen removal through several small incisions versus one large incision)
- Open and laparoscopic surgery of the abdomen, such as hernia repair and removal of the gallbladder or appendix
- Gastrointestinal tract and colorectal surgeries
- Upper endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Breast surgery for both cancer and benign conditions (i.e. fibrocystic disease)
- Skin and soft tissue surgery