NCUK Virtual Patient Handbook

a surgeon can repair, remove, or replace a diseased or damaged he time it takes to recover, will depend on the type and extent of y complications occur. Your surgical team will give you full information

of surgery they do – if you do not receive any written information,

the use of a fine tube with a light on the end (known as a fibre optic nstruments inserted through the tube. Keyhole surgery may cause to open surgery), and though it is used for an increasing number of of cancer you have. be alerted to the possibility that open surgery may happen instead – er through the keyhole procedure.

ly to operations performed inside the abdomen and in the peritoneum

by a cut (incision) into the body to allow the surgeon to remove, de- the incision.

urgery, to allow the surgeon to to use several specifically designed or very specific types of surgery.

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