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Mercy Hospital Dunedin - General Surgery
Private Surgical Service, General Surgery
This is where you will come to have your surgery performed. The visits to your surgeon before and after surgery will be at their consulting rooms.
Cholecystectomy
Laparoscopic: several small incisions (cuts) are made in the abdomen (stomach) and a narrow tube with a tiny camera attached (laparoscope) is inserted. This allows the surgeon a view of the gallbladder and, by inserting small surgical instruments through the other cuts, the gallbladder can be removed.
Open: an abdominal incision is made and the gallbladder removed.
