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Trauma laparotomy
Trauma laparotomy is an emergency operation in which the abdomen is opened to find and repair life-threatening internal injuries after blunt or penetrating trauma, the standard of care for unstable patients.
Truncal vagotomy
Truncal vagotomy is an operation that cuts the vagal nerve trunks to reduce gastric acid secretion, developed in 1943 for peptic ulcers and now largely obsolete.
Umbilical hernia repair
Umbilical hernia repair is surgery that closes a defect in the abdominal wall at the navel, using suture or mesh, open, laparoscopic, or robotic, in adults and children.
Unilateral adrenalectomy
Unilateral adrenalectomy is the surgical removal of one adrenal gland, performed to cure hormone overproduction from that gland, chiefly primary aldosteronism, cortisol-producing adenoma, and pheochromocytoma.
Vagotomy
Vagotomy is a surgical operation dividing branches of the vagus nerve to reduce gastric acid, a standard peptic ulcer treatment from the 1940s until acid-suppressing drugs displaced it.
Ventral hernia repair
Ventral hernia repair, also called laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, is surgery closing an abdominal wall defect with mesh, done open, laparoscopically, or robotically, with hundreds of thousands performed yearly in the United States.
Ventral rectopexy
Ventral rectopexy is a surgical procedure for rectal prolapse that suspends the rectum with a mesh fixed to the sacral promontory, avoiding posterior dissection to protect pelvic nerves.
William James Mayo
William James Mayo was an American abdominal surgeon who, with his brother Charles, built the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and gave it away in 1919.