Diagnosing organ pathologies
Surgical diagnoses of organ pathologies are not performed for the purpose of treatment, but to make a differential diagnosis and determine exactly what is wrong with a patient. They may have varying levels of invasiveness (the degree of tissue damage that the patient receives during surgery).
Diagnostic operations can include the following types of surgeries:
- Biopsy (taking a small part of an organ for examination);
- Puncture (taking some fluid such as cerebrospinal fluid for further examination);
- Laparotomy (cutting through the anterior abdominal wall to visually examine the diseased organ);
- Arthroscopy (insertion of an arthroscope into the joint cavity to determine pathology);
- Catheter placement; etc.
Many diagnostic operations, such as laparotomy and arthroscopy, can be converted into treatment operations. It is worth noting that surgical diagnosis of internal organ pathologies is one of the most reliable methods of verifying a diagnosis.
Indications for surgery
- 1 The last stage of diagnosis
- 2 All non-invasive diagnostic options have been tried and tested.
