Minimally Invasive Surgery
Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region

At Sutter we believe in doing everything possible to help our patients experience medical treatment in the most comfortable way possible. Thankfully, medical science has made great progress in the last decade in replacing many traditional surgeries with new, minimally invasive procedures. The key to providing the least invasive treatment is providing surgeons with the latest equipment and training.

At Sutter hospitals throughout the Greater Sacramento region, you'll find medical surgery suites specially designed and outfitted with the most advanced equipment available. You can read about them on the hospital Web sites: Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, Sutter Davis Hospital, Sutter Roseville Medical Center and Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento.

In locations across the region, you'll also find special devices and services that include:

• Brain Lab Navigation System for computer-assisted knee- and hip-joint replacement
• The da Vinci® Surgical System and Prostate seed therapy for treating prostate cancer
• Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery for treating certain brain tumors and blood vessel malformations without surgery
• Minimal access spinal technology (MAST) and minimally invasive scoliosis surgery [not sure what to link to for these]
• Sutter Bariatric Services providing minimally invasive weight-loss surgery
• Thermal Ablation for treating tumors with heat-seeking probes