Colon and Rectal Surgery and Oncology
Dr. Jay Lohan
The patients treated by the surgeons of the Colo-Rectal Surgery section are supported by specialized staff, including enterostomal therapists, who are nurses familiar with colorectal diseases and the special operations performed to fix those problems. This means that patients undergoing colorectal surgery by the section’s experts receive specialized pre and post-operative care routinely.
A selection of the procedures done in 12 months by the Colorectal surgeons include:
- Colonoscopies: 641
- Rectal ultrasound: 50
- Colon operations, including laparoscopic procedures: 159
- Rectal prolapse: 8
Care of patients with simple and complex hemorrhoidal disease: 173 - Care of patients with simple and complex fistulas: 130
- Care of patients with fissures, including chemodenervation of the sphincter: 84
- Care of patients with pylonidal disease: 12
Additionally, surgeons perform yearly several pancreatectomies and laparoscopic adrenalectomies for endocrine disease.
Some of the services provided by the section of Colon and Rectal Surgery include:
- Diagnosis and treatment of patients with colon, rectal and anal cancer
- Treatment of patients with complicated inflammatory bowel disease
- Diagnosis and treatment of patients with diverticular disease
- Diagnosis and treatment of patients with polyps and families with Familial Polyposis
- Options for patients with rectal prolapse
- Care of patients with simple and complex hemorrhoidal disease and fistulas
- Non-surgical and surgical treatment of anal fissures
- Colonoscopy
- Rectal ultrasound
- Emergency care of colorectal diseases
