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Neurosurgery, or neurological surgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

A Nissen fundoplication, or laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication when performed via laparoscopic surgery, is a surgical procedure to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hiatal hernia.

A mastoidectomy is a procedure performed to remove the mastoid air cells.

Mastopexy (Greek μαστός mastos “breast” + -pēxiā “affix”) is the plastic surgery mammoplasty procedure for raising sagging breasts upon the chest of the woman; by changing and modifying the size, contour, and elevation of the breasts.

Laparoscopy (from Ancient Greek λαπάρα (lapara), meaning ‘flank, side’, and σκοπέω (skopeo), meaning ‘to see’) is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis through small incisions (usually 0.