Surgical Procedures

Explore profiles on different surgery types and learn more about how they are done, benefits and risks, preparation, recovery, and more.
Preparation, risks, and recovery all differ from procedure to procedure. Learn more about a surgery you're considering or have planned so you can do all you can to get the best outcome.
Patient getting a PET scan
What to Know About Cervical Disc Replacement Surgery
Doctor in operating room
Understanding Mitral Valve Replacement Risks and Recovery
Surgeon preparing tools
Septorhinoplasty: Effects on Breathing and Nose Appearance
Close-up of friends sitting down holding hands. Hand resting on a person's knee.
Getting a Biopsy: How to Prepare
Two surgeons consult in a hospital corridor
Preparing for Thymectomy Surgery
A healthcare provider and patient during a follow-up visit after a partial nephrectomy.
Partial Nephrectomy: Surgery to Remove Part of Kidney
A person lying down with an ERCP procedure being done
ERCP Procedure to Diagnose and Treat Digestive Conditions
A healthcare provider walking with a patient after their radical nephrectomy surgery.
What Is Radical Nephrectomy Surgery?
Doctors and nurses in a hospital
What to Expect During a Laparoscopic Appendectomy
A person recovers from a nephrectomy in the hospital with their spouse visiting
Kidney Removal: Pre- and Post-Op Guidance
HCP speaking with patient
Ileostomy Reversal: Overview
A health care provider getting ready for surgery.
5 Types of Bariatric Surgery: A Guide to Making the Best Decision
speaking with healthcare provider
What to Expect From a Laminectomy Procedure
Child with ileostomy
How to Prepare for an Ileostomy
Close-up of woman's abdomen and ostomy bag
Comparing Ileostomy vs. Colostomy Surgery
A surgeon performing surgery
Weighing the Benefits and Risks of Adenoidectomy Surgery
Healthcare provider looking at an X-ray.
Arthritis Surgery: Options, Pros vs. Cons, Surgeons
Surgery team in operating room
Laryngectomy
Doctor talking to patient in hospital bed after successful surgery.
What Is Tenotomy?: Overview and More
Woman getting marked up by healthcare provider for a liposuction procedure.
Bariatric Surgery vs. Liposuction
Woman showing breast cancer mastectomy scar
What’s the Difference Between Top Surgery and Mastectomy?
Man talking to doctor after shoulder surgery
Shoulder Replacement vs. Rotator Cuff Surgery: Uses, Benefits, Side Effects & More
Oral surgeon examining images before sinus lift surgery
Sinus Lift: Overview
Patient with abdominal pain, ruptured appendix
Appendix Rupture Causes and Symptoms
An illustration with someone receiving laser therapy while wearing protective glasses
Laser Therapy: What You Should Know
Woman consults with doctor about gastric sleeve surgery
Purpose of Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Surgeon in a procedure
Cystectomy: Everything You Need to Know
Surgeon performing operation in operating room
What Is a TURBT?
Nurse holding anesthesia mask in operating room
Stapedectomy: Overview
Team of women surgeons in the operating room
Salpingectomy Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
A person packing a shirt with 2 bags (How to Prepare for Scoliosis Surgery)
Scoliosis Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
Surgeons team in the operating room
Total Shoulder Replacement Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
An illustration of the liver
TIPS Procedure: Everything You Need to Know
endovascular surgery prep
What Is Endovascular Surgery?
Women in dental chair speaking with dentist
Osseous Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
Stylish transgender man in modern living room
What Is Transgender Top Surgery?
How Long Does Lasik Surgery Last?
How Long Does LASIK Surgery Last?
painful sciatic nerve
Sciatica Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
doctor holding a model of the prostate gland
The Purpose of Prostate Surgery
A female nurse is listening with a stethoscope the heart bit of a patient. - stock photo
Triple Bypass Surgery: Recovery
Patient having ear surgery
Tympanoplasty Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
Endoscopy
What Is Endoscopy?
Surgeons performing open heart surgery - stock photo
CABG Procedure: Everything You Need to Know
A glowing red x-ray image of the chest cavity and heart
Watchman Implant Procedure: Everything You Need to Know
Team of surgeons operating on patient in hospital - stock photo
Maze Procedure: Everything You Need to Know
prepping for heart bypass surgery
Heart Bypass Surgery: Overview
Man with hands over his crotch area
What to Know About a Varicocelectomy
Back problems.
Spinal Stenosis Surgery: Overview
Man holding belly for hernia pain
What Is a Hernia?
brain hemorrhage
Brain Aneurysm Surgery: Overview
Surgeon consulting a patient, holding hands, getting ready for surgery
Gallbladder Surgery: What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Doctor discussing with patient and woman in ward
Vasectomy: What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Pensive adult black patient looking away to the window while lying down on hospital bed
Hysterectomy: What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
robotic surgery
Robotic Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
Concentrated surgeon performing surgery with her team
Cholecystectomy Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
Chiropractor explains patient using plastic model
What Is Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)?
A lateral view of the tracheostomy procedure.
An Overview of Tracheostomy
Emergency airway treatment
Cricothyrotomy and Emergency Airway Management
thyroid surgery, thyroid surgery complications, thyroidectomy, thyroidectomy complications
What to Expect With Surgery for Nasal Polyps
Blood Patch
What Is a Blood Patch?