General Surgery

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General surgery focuses on surgical procedures performed in the abdomen, including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts, appendix and thyroid. General surgery also deals with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, and hernias.

Our general surgeons can perform many procedures laparoscopically or robotically. Some of the most common general surgery procedures include:

Appendectomy to remove the appendix
Breast Biopsy
Cholecystectomy to remove the gallbladder, including da Vinci gall bladder surgery
Colonoscopy
Hemorrhoidectomy to remove hemmorrhoids
Hernia repairs
Mastectomy to remove all or part of the breast

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Cody Butler talks about his hernia repair and the well coordinated, local care he received. Flandreau father-of-two Matthew Knippling talks about his son’s emergency appendectomy at Brookings Health System, and Brookings' Joel Perry shares his experience having same-day gallbladder removal surgery.