{"id":2458,"date":"2024-08-09T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/consultas\/general-surgery"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:14:47","slug":"general-surgery","status":"publish","type":"consultas","link":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/consultations\/general-surgery","title":{"rendered":"General Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>General Surgery Consultation<\/h2>\n<p><strong>General Surgery<\/strong> is the specialty from which the other surgical specialties derive (Urology, Orthopedics, Plastic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, among others).<br \/>\nIts aim is to diagnose and treat pathologies that may require surgical intervention.<br \/>\nThe main pathologies dealt with in general surgery are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>venous veins of the lower limbs<\/strong> &#8211; Varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis, telangiectasia;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benign or malignant skin<\/strong> &#8211; Sebaceous cysts, lipomas, papillomas, nevus (moles), skin carcinomas or lesions suspected of malignancy, burns, pressure ulcers;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upper digestive<\/strong> tract &#8211; Jaundice, gallbladder and bile duct lithiasis, pancreatitis, pancreatic and liver tumors, hepatic hydatid cyst, gastric tumors;<\/li>\n<li><strong>the lower digestive tract<\/strong> &#8211; tumors of the small and large intestine, tumors of the anus, diverticula of the colon;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coloproctology<\/strong> &#8211; Internal hemorrhoids, anal fissures, anal fistula, sinus pilonidalis, rectal prolapse, fecal incontinence, chronic constipation, difficulty defecating, anal pain, anal or rectal polyps;<\/li>\n<li><strong>abdominal wall<\/strong> &#8211; inguinal, crural and ventral hernias, incisional hernia &#8211; eventrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1825,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2458","consultas","type-consultas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultas\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/consultas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xclinic.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}