Laparoscopy is an approach to surgery that enables doctors to operate on patients without having to make large incisions. Doctors are able to accomplish traditional surgical goals while delivering less pain, faster recovery, and happier patients. Patients typically spend less time in the hospital; and for many patients with chronic medical conditions and the elderly minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery decreases their risk of developing complications after surgery.
 
The Division of Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic Surgery at Northwest Hospital is led by Peter Geis, M.D., one of the founders of laparoscopic surgery in the United States, and one of the leading laparoscopic surgeons in the country. He has conducted extensive research and written numerous articles on subjects relating to minimally invasive surgical techniques.

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Below is a list of some of the procedures performed with minimally invasive surgery that Dr. Geis has helped pioneer:

Gastrointestinal Procedures

• Nissen fundoplication and revisions
• Giant hiatus hernia repair
• Heller myotomy
• Vagotomy; highly selective vagotomy
• gastric resection
• Removal of benign gastric polyps
     and tumors
• Pyloroplasty; gastro-jejunostomy
• Surgical PEG
• Small bowel resection
• Adhesiolysis
    (for pain or bowel obstruction)
• Colon resection
• Colostomy / Ileostomy
• Colostomy / Ileostomy closure
• Appendectomy / Cecectomy

Solid Organ

• Splenectomy
• Adrenalectomy
• Nephrectomy

Hernia Repairs

• Ventral hernia
• Incisional hernia
• Flank hernia
• Diaphragmatic hernia
• Inguinal hernia (bilateral, recurrent, incarcerated, giant)
• Recurrent
• Incarcerated

Laparoscopic Exploration for:

• Tumor diagnosis
• Staging of disease
• Abscess
• Biopsy diagnosis
• Bowel obstruction
• Incarcerated hernia
• Appendicitis / Perforated appendicitis
• Perforated viscus
• Peritonitis

Gynecologic Laparoscopic Procedures

• Total laparoscopic hysterectomy
• Supracervical laparoscopic hysterectomy
• Laparoscopic emoval of ovarian cysts
• Laparoscopic paravaginal repair of cystocele
• Laparoscopic treatment of pelvic pain / Endometriosis

For more information on minimally invasive hysterectomy procedures click here.

In addition to his groundbreaking work in minimally invasive surgery, Dr. Geis is also the director of the Laparoscopic Fellowship Program, the first of its kind at Northwest Hospital. The program enables residents and experienced surgeons, unfamiliar with laparoscopic techniques, to work side-by-side with Dr. Geis to gain exposure and experience in the field of minimally invasive surgery.