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Minimally Invasive Surgery:
Veterinary Surgery with Less Trauma & Faster Healing

At Northgate Animal Hospital, we offer our patients the latest in veterinary technology, including endoscopic surgery. Endoscopic surgery uses scopes going through small incisions or natural body openings in order to diagnose and treat disease. Another popular term for this technology is minimally invasive surgery (MIS), which emphasizes that diagnosis and treatments can be done with greatly reduced intrusion into the body.

Endoscopic surgery is used for diagnostic (for example, biopsy) or surgical procedures (gastropexy, urinary stone removal, hysterectomy). Many procedures can be performed using minimally invasive surgery, with either a rigid endoscope or a flexible endoscope. These minimally invasive procedures include the following:

We are able to perform the following diagnostic and surgical treatments with minimally invasive surgery:

Laparoscopic	Thoracoscopic
Incisional gastropexy (preventative/treatment) Enterostomy feeding tube placement (PEG tube placement) Cryptorchid castration Ovario-hysterectomy Cystopexy for retroflexed bladder Calculi removal, bladder tear repair, bladder polyps Colopexy for recurrent rectal prolapse Gastrotomy for foreign body removal Intestinal resection/anastomosis Attenuation of portosystemic shunts	Pericardial resection for pericardial effusion Lung lobectomy Persistent right aortic arch Thoracic duct ligature

Visit our Puppies & Kittens page for more about Laparoscopic Spay surgery.

Visit the LapSpay website to read more about laparoscopic surgery and endoscopic procedures, download a brochure, and watch a video describing the laparoscopic spay procedure and recovery.

Arthroscopy Videos