The Missouri Digestive Health Center provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach to digestive health. Our minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgeons use the most advanced minimally invasive techniques to treat all types of gastrointestinal and other general surgery-related illnesses. There are many advantages to this approach, including less pain, faster recovery and shorter hospital stays, as well as a significantly reduced risk of infection and recurrence. Although our surgeons perform minimally invasive techniques whenever possible, they also are very experienced in performing traditional (open) surgery.

Conditions treated by gastrointestinal surgeons
Our surgeons offer surgical treatment for a wide range of colorectal, gastrointestinal and abdominal-related illnesses, including:

• Achalasia
• Barrett's esophagus
• Benign and malignant diseases of the biliary tract
• Benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas
• Esophageal cancer
• Gastrointestinal tumors
• Hiatal hernia
• Inflammatory bowel disease and continent reconstruction
• Paraesophageal
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Primary and metastatic liver tumors
• Primary neoplasms of the stomach, small bowel, colon and rectum
• Radiation bowel injury
• Reflux esophagitis (GERD) and its complications
• Small bowel obstruction
• Diverticular disease
• Colon cancer
• Colon polyps
• Crohn's disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• Rectal cancer
• Rectal prolapse