Dr. Ashraf Shawky

Ashraf Shawky is an assistant professor of high quality minimally invasive surgery at the Military Medical Academy. Minimally invasive surgery is a type of surgery that enables surgeons to perform multiple types of surgeries in a way that includes minimal pain, leaves no skin marks, and enables patients to recover rapidly. General surgery is a surgical field that deals with abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. It is also concerned with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, Peripheral artery disease, and hernias. General surgeons are also trained to conduct gastroscopy and colonoscopy surgeries. General surgeons may sub-specialize into one or more of the following specialties: Laparoscopic surgery, Trauma surgery, Colorectal surgery, Breast surgery, Vascular surgery, Endocrine surgery, Transplant surgery, Surgical oncology, Cardiothoracic surgery, and Pediatric surgery See translation