Surgical Procedures

Images of medical professionals performing surgeries using advanced technology, highlighting teamwork in operating rooms and robotic assistance.

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Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jacob Riis, center, an orthopedic surgeon assigned to 355th Medical Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tuscan, AZ, performs surgery on a local Guatemalan knee while deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, (HEART 22), on August 30, 2022 at Hospital Regional de Occidente in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jacob Riis, center, an orthopedic surgeon assigned to 355th Medical Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tuscan, AZ, performs surgery on a local Guatemalan knee while deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, (HEART 22), on August 30, 2022 at Hospital Regional de Occidente in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

Prostatectomy performed by the telesurgery robot Da Vinci, which four articulated arms and camera are controlled at distance by a surgeon. Limoges hospital, France.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charlotte Hughes, from Clifton Park, New York, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Braden Beavers conduct ear surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) anchored off of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 16, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Vaginoplasty, operation of plastic surgery to create a vagina, required to complete a change of sex, following a emasculation (transgender MtF).

Surgeons in the operating room

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

Surgical Team Working In Operating Theatre

Report in the operating room during a hysterectomy with the da Vinci® robot. End of operation.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of a fibroma. Stitching.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. A nurse prepares the robot by inserting the sterile fields onto the mechanical arms.

Gynecological examination in oncology. Removal of a tumor from a cancer of the female reproductive system. Hannibal Internationale private hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.

Reportage in the Mozart plastic surgery clinic in Nice, France. Face lift. Local anesthetic.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of an ovarian cyst. The surgeon and operating assistant.

Three female surgeons and two male surgeons operating a patient

Healthcare, surgery and teamwork with doctors in operating room together for procedure on patient. Emergency, medical and operation with people in scrubs for rescue, support or surgical intervention

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of a fibroma using a 3D camera. The surgeon and operating assistant wear 3D glasses giving a high quality result on the screen.

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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jacob Riis, center, an orthopedic surgeon assigned to 355th Medical Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tuscan, AZ, performs surgery on a local Guatemalan knee while deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, (HEART 22), on August 30, 2022 at Hospital Regional de Occidente in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

Surgical Team Working In Operating Theatre

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Medullary liberation and arthrodesis in a patient suffering from lumbar stenosis caused by arthritis. The operation consists of freeing boney elements from the vertebral canal that are compressing it, and consolidating the spine with an arthrodesis. This operation is carried out using the pre-op 3D imagery O-Arm system.

Surgeon, nurse and anesthetist operating on patient with hand disorder

Reportage in the stereotactic neurosurgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Treating Parkinsons disease through deep brain stimulation. This technique consists of implanting electrodes in the brain, which modulate abnormal cerebral electrical activity. The second part of the operation: implanting and connecting the stimulator to the implanted electrodes. Incision at the top of the torso to implant the generator.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. The surgeon explains how the operation went after carpal tunnel surgery.

Reportage in the gynecology surgery service of the Chambéry Métropole Savoie Hospital, France. Breast conservation surgery (BCS) on breast cancer in a 72-year old patient: removal of the sentinel lymph node and lumpectomy.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Saint George Clinic, Nice, France. Treating a torn cruciate ligament with ligament surgery using the Sambba technique. The operation, carried out under arthroscopy, consists of reconstructing the torn ligament with a transplant taken from the knee.

Medical staff dressing in in surgery

Woman with an exemption by Cesarean section

Prostatectomy performed by the telesurgery robot Da Vinci, which four articulated arms and camera are controlled at distance by a surgeon. Limoges hospital, France.

Reportage on a cesarean under hypnosis, in the maternity ward of Saint-Grégoire hospital in Rennes, France. The anaesthetist hypnotises the patient while setting up the spinal anesthesia, then maintains the hypnotic state during the entire operation

Surgical Team Working In Operating Theatre

theater assistant preparing swab for surgeon

Prof M Samii is a man of medical superlatives, an international authority on neurosurgery, he has taken part in more than 20.000 operations. In July 2000, with the inauguration of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) in a unique building in the shape of a brain Madjid Samii

Surgical laparoscopy and hysteroscopy exploration here, treatment of endometriosis, Limoges hospital, France.

Laser surgery for myopia (short-sightedness). Centre François Xavier Michelet, Pellegrin hospital, Bordeaux, France.

Two surgeons operating on a patient

Dental implant surgery.

Reportage in the gynecology surgery service of the Chambéry Métropole Savoie Hospital, France. Breast conservation surgery (BCS) on breast cancer in a 72-year old patient: removal of the sentinel lymph node and lumpectomy.

Orthopedic surgeon operating with medical equipment in ICU

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A surgical team in an operating room.

Sinus surgery, Surgeons performing functional endoscopic sinus surgery, Limoges hospital, France.

The Heart Institute offer high-quality care to Vietnamese patients suffering from heart diseases. Senegalese medical team trained to practice cardiac surgery.

Prostatectomy performed by the telesurgery robot Da Vinci, which four articulated arms and camera are controlled at distance by a surgeon. Limoges hospital, France.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Two nurses prepare the material needed for the operation.

A patient with Parkinson's disease is treated with thalamic stimulation : electrods are inserted into the brain and fed with a thalamic pacemaker implanted in the thorax. This neurosurgery is performed with the O-ARM Imaging System. This motorized intra-operative multi-dimensional surgical imaging platform provides real-time high resolution fluoroscopy and 3D CT scan imaging, and allows high precision and safety surgical procedures. Here, the electrods are inserted in patient's brain. Pr Jean-Ja

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (Aug. 9, 2022) - U.S. Navy medical professionals prepare a patient to undergo cleft lip repair surgery in an operating room aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. At the end of the operation the abdomen is deflated.

Reportage in the maternity service of Métropole Savoie hospital in Chambéry, France. A planned cesarean delivery. A nurse brings the baby over to its mother.

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (Aug. 13, 2022) - Cmdr. Jesse Bandle, a surgeon from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command San Diego, performs a hernia repair on a patient aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Urological surgery, Diaconesses hospital, Paris, France.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Tiana Buatista, from Murrieta, California, grabs surgical utensils during a surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), anchored off of Koror, Palau, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 3, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew Caldwell, right, an Ophthalmologist assigned to 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, deployed in support of Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022, (HEART 22), speaks to a local Guatemalan ophthalmologist during an eye surgery on a young Guatemalan child at Unidad Nacional de Oftalmología, Guatemala, on Sept. 1, 2022. During HEART 22, the U.S. military and partner nation medical professionals operated side-by-side in three specialties: Ophthalmology (general and cornea transplant surgeries), Orthopedic (general and trauma surgeries) and Dental (restorative dental surgeries).

Real abdominal surgery on a cat in a hospital setting. High quality photo. Real abdominal surgery on a cat in a hospital setting

Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Vaginoplasty, operation of plastic surgery to create a vagina, required to complete a change of sex, following a emasculation (transgender MtF).

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charlotte Hughes, from Clifton Park, New York, performs a biopsy on a local Micronesian patient aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) anchored off Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 13, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

Report from the operating room of the pediatric neurosurgery department at the Necker hospital.

$Reportage in St Grégoire Hospital group in Rennes, France. Setting pins on a fractured wrist.$

Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Sex reassignment sugery (transgender FtM). Here hystero-ovariectomy under laparoscopy. Operation which precedes the phalloplasty (hysterectomy, ovariectomy, vaginectomy).

Real abdominal surgery on a cat in a hospital setting. High quality photo. Real abdominal surgery on a cat in a hospital setting

Report at the Rouen University Hospital, medically assisted procreation, follicular puncture.

The French Vietnamese Association of Pneumology aims to develop exchanges between the French and Vietnamese medical structures, here at the Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital in Ho Chi Minh Ville, Vietnam. French surgeons and anesthetists share experience and knowledge with their Vietnamese colleagues. Here, anesthetists performing general anesthesia for thoracic surgery.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. A nurse prepares the surgical instruments required for a knee replacement.

Doctor with tools doing eye surgery on patient

Eduardo Campos, Hospital Del Sur general surgeon, left, performs a surgery alongside U.S. Army Col. Walter Johnston, Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element general surgeon, Sept. 20, 2022, at Hospital Del Sur in Choluteca, Honduras, during a recent Surgical Readiness Training Exercise. Working with the Honduran surgery team, JTF-Bravo completed 12 surgeries in three days. SURGRETEs provide an opportunity for U.S. service members in the surgeon cell to work alongside Honduran medical professionals on a multitude of surgeries and strengthen partnerships within the community.

Reportage on a kidney transplant in the urology service of Nice Hospital, France. The kidney is taken from a living related donor, the recipients wife. Transplanting the kidney in the recipient.

Surgery

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®.

a surgeon in the operating room watching a patient

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery service in Léman hospital, Thonon, France. Operating theatre. An anaesthetist checks the patient's vital signs.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Phalloplastie, operation of plastic surgery to create a phallus, required to complete a change of sex, following a hystéro-ovariectomie.This takes place in two steps. Here step 2. Step 1: it's the creation of a neo-penis from a fragment of skin taken from the arm. The skin, the nerves, the veins and the arteries are taken from the not dominant arm to constitute the urethra, the acorn and the penis. The vaginal cavity is blocked and the big lips are used for the scrotum. The nerves which innervate the clitoris are protected, they will innervate the penis, in order to keep an orgasmic capacity after the intervention. Step 2: after the penis found its sensibility, testiculaires implants and implant are added to make an erection possible on demand.

Reportage at the Maussins-Nollet Clinic in Paris. Fitting a hip prosthesis with double mobility in theatre. Titanium cupule.

Doctors performing eye surgery on patient at hospital

Fibroscopy performed on an intubated patient and under ECMO (oxygenation by extracorporeal membrane) suffering from Covid-19. Medical resuscitation service - Jacques Cartier Hospital - Massy.

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (Aug. 9, 2022) - Capt. Eamon OReilly, from Carlsbad, California, right, and Lt. Cmdr. Tanner Miller, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, perform a cleft lip repair surgery in an operating room aboard Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Orthopedic operating theatre, Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France, Medullary liberation and arthrodesis, patient suffering from lumbar stenosis caused by arthritis, operation consists of freeing boney elements from the vertebral canal and consolidating the spine with an arthrodesis, carried out using the pre-op 3D imagery O-Arm system. Placing screws. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

U.S. Navy Capt. Kristina Morocco, from Macungie, Pennsylvania, conducts surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) anchored off of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 16, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

Reportage in the gynecology theatre block in Lenval Clinic, Nice, France. Laparoscopy removal of an ovarian cyst.

Laser surgery for myopia (short-sightedness). Centre François Xavier Michelet, Pellegrin hospital, Bordeaux, France.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction with a penile prosthesis. Preparation of the prosthesis.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. The surgeon steers the robot from the console.

Replacement of a percutaneous aortic valve with a bioprosthetic valve implanted by transcutaneous blood. The valve is inserted into the femoral artery through a catheter to be transported to the heart. Cardiology department of the Haut Leveque Hospital. Bordeaux Hospital, France.

221028-N-LP924-2159 PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (Oct. 28, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. Jedson Liggett, from Huttonsville, West Virginia, left, and Capt. Timothy Platz, from Dyersville, Iowa, conduct bilateral hernia repair open surgery on a Guatemalan citizen aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), Oct. 28, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Doctor and nurse performing surgery in an operating room

Treatment of carotid stenosis by angioplasty and setting stent prosthesis. Here, preparation of the catheter. Limoges hospital, France.

Photo essay at Lyon hospital. Department of urology. Surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction with a penile prosthesis. Preparation of the prosthesis.

Doctors, surgery and patient on bed in operating room, group or trauma response at clinic. People, team and collaboration with scrubs in theater, staff or equipment for emergency services at hospital

Asian Professional surgeons team performing surgery in the operating room, surgeon, Assistants, and Nurses Performing Surgery on a Patient, health care cancer and disease treatment concept

Reportage at the Maussins-Nollet Clinic in Paris. Fitting a hip prosthesis in theatre. The femoral head has just been cut.

Reportage in the orthopedic surgery operating theatre in Pasteur 2 Hospital, Nice, France. Medullary liberation and arthrodesis in a patient suffering from lumbar stenosis caused by arthritis. The operation consists of freeing boney elements from the vertebral canal that are compressing it, and consolidating the spine with an arthrodesis. This operation is carried out using the pre-op 3D imagery O-Arm system. The doctor removes laminae and vertebral spinous processes.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. A nurse and the surgeon position the robots mechanical arm.

Reportage at the Maussins-Nollet Clinic in Paris. Fitting a hip prosthesis in theatre. Impaction of the grater to create the passage inside the femur.

Reportage in an operating theatre during a hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot®. Removing the robot at the end of the operation.

Reportage in the Osteoarticular Infections Referral Centre (CRIOA) at Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon hospital in Paris. Septic surgery, removing an internal fixation in the ankle following an infection. To avoid infection spreading, the operating theatre team wear scrub overalls that have to be taken off when leaving theatre.

Male surgeon with coworker operating on patient in ICU at hospital

Surgeon doing eye surgery of patient at hospital

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