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 Visceral surgery may be a specialised branch of general surgery. Visceral surgery is surgery of internal organs. It focuses on the disorders and deformities of the viscera and mammary glands which will be treated through surgical intervention. The visceral surgeon operates benign and malignant conditions of the abdominal organs (e.g. inguinal hernias, gallstones, cancer of the colon). Additionally to standard open procedures minimal invasive techniques (laparoscopy) are getting increasingly important. The visceral surgeon works closely with the gastroenterologist. If the latter diagnoses gall stones during a patient, the visceral surgeon removes them surgically. He also operates where tumours are found within the viscera and carries out interventions on (piles). Although he carries out most interventions laparoscopically, i.e. using an endoscope adapted for the viscera, he also can use modern laser techniques. Visceral surgery has a crucial role during this network of interdisciplinary and multimodal treatment options. The most goal in palliative care is to embed patients with advanced malignancies into a multimodal network of palliative treatment options to stop tumour related complications. Many of those treatments embody minimally/non-invasive choices like examination procedures, therapy and radiation that come back beside lower morbidity rates compared to open surgery.  However, within the case of tumour related complications that can't be treated by alternative procedures, surgery plays a big role in palliation to treat or prevent tumour-related complications and to realize a fast , long-lasting symptom control to enhance and maintain the standard of life.  

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