Dr Yolandi Loots is Specialist Surgeon at Cape Town Mediclinic, with a Special Interest in Female Health Care.
The practice offers a variety of procedures and surgeries, with a special interest in disease more frequently affecting females (eg disease of the breast and thyroid, iron defeciency, skin and soft tissue lesions) . We also offer an In-rooms Endoscopy Suite for Gastroscopies, Colonoscopies and Sigmoidoscopies.
Procedures and Surgeries
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Breast Surgery
Needle biopsy
Cyst aspirations
Excision/incision biopsy
Breast cancer surgery including
Lumpectomy or wide local excision
Modified radical mastectomy
Subcutaneous (skin and/or nipple-sparing) mastectomy
Prophylactic/risk reduction mastectomy
Sentinel lymph node biopsy
Axillary node clearance
Chemo port placement
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Thyroid and neck surgery
Thyroidectomy
Thyroid lobectomy
Lymph node biopsy
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​Endoscopic Procedures
Gastroscopy
Colonoscopy
Sigmoidoscopy
Polypectomy
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Other
Appendectomy (laparoscopic or open)
Cholecystectomy (laparoscopic or open)
Surgery for bowel obstruction and perforation
​Hernia repair (inguinal, incisional and abdominal wall)
Colostomy, ileostomy and stoma reversals
​Excision of lymph nodes
Incision & drainage (hematomas ,abscesses)
Surgery for cancer of the digestive tract
Excision of soft tissue tumors
Skin grafts
Excision of benign and cancerous skin lesions
Lymph node biopsy groin, neck, axilla, abdomen
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In-rooms
Variety of biopsies and excision of skin lesions
Breast biopsies
Endoscopic Suite
Colonoscopy, Gastroscopy, Sigmoidoscopy
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