MountainStar General Surgery - Salt Lake City Clinic

No matter what type of surgery you need, our Salt Lake City and Draper, Utah, teams will customize your care and treat you as an individual. This personalized approach and expert surgical skills ensure you will have the best surgical experience possible. Our general surgeons are also specially trained in minimally invasive surgical techniques, allowing for shorter recovery times in the hospital and more time to be spent on getting you back to a healthier version of yourself.

To learn more about how we can help you with your surgical needs, call us at (801) 262-3564.

Conditions we treat

Our skilled physicians can help treat many conditions, including:

• Basal cell cancer
• Burning or itching of the skin
• Colovesical fistula
• Diverticulitis
• Fissure
• Hemorrhoids
• Inguinal
• Leg heaviness and fatigue
• Leg or ankle swelling
• Leg pain, aching or cramping
• Lower leg ulcers
• Melanoma (skin cancer)
• Obstruction
• Parathyroid
• Restless legs
• Skin changes
• Soft tissue tumors
• Spider veins
• Squamous cell cancer
• Thyroid
• Ulcer disease

Procedures we offer

We provide many surgical procedures, including:

Abdomen procedures

• Appendectomy
• Cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal)
• Colon resection
• Gastrectomy
• Gastrostomy tube insertion
• Intra-abdominal mass resection
• Liver biopsy
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
• Small bowel resection
• Splenectomy

Breast procedures

• Core needle biopsy
• Duct excision
• Lumpectomy
• Mastectomy
• Open biopsy
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy
• Wire localization biopsy

Head/neck procedures

• Lymph node biopsy
• Tracheostomy

Skin and soft tissue procedures

• Debridement
• Laceration repair and revision
• Lymph node dissection temporary dialysis catheter
• Skin graft
• Skin lesion excision
• Venous access device (ports, triple lumen catheters, long-term tunneled catheters for medication delivery) insertion

Other procedures

We also offer hernia and critical care procedures, including:

• Arterial catheter insertion
• Central venous access
• Swan-Ganz catheter insertion
• Ventral and incisional hernia repair