ASEC’s specialists provide minimally-invasive procedures 7 days a week.  Minimally-invasive procedures speed healing and provide optimal patient outcomes. Our specialists perform and teach these techniques regularly.

Minimally Invasive Abdominal Procedures:

• Exploratory laparoscopy
• Biopsies: gastrointestinal (full-thickness), liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, lymph nodes, masses
• Laser Ectopic Ureter Ablation
• Ovariohysterectomy & ovariectomy
• Cryptorchidectomy
• Laparoscopic & endoscopic Gastropexy
• Gastrotomy
• Percutaneous laser cystic calculi ablation
• Cystotomy
• Nephrectomy

Arthroscopic Procedures:

• Shoulders, elbows, stifles, hips, tarsi & carpi.

Cardiologic Procedures:

• PDA coil embolization
• Balloon valvuloplasty
• Pacemaker implantation

Stents & Interventional Radiology:

• Tracheal Collapse
• Ureteral obstruction (calculi, neoplasia)
• Urethral obstruction (calculi, neoplasia)
• Esophageal stricture (stent or balloon dilatation)
• Colonic obstruction (stent or balloon dilatation)
• Nasopharyngeal stenosis

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Procedures:

• Lung lobectomy (neoplasia; spontaneous pneumothorax)
• Non-infiltrative thymoma removal
• Thoracic duct ligation for chylothorax
• Pericardiectomy
• Biopsies: lung, pleural, & hilar lesions
• Pyothorax exploratory

Oncologic Applications:

• Minimally invasive exploratory & biopsies