This type of surgery addresses conditions of the colon, rectum, and anus typically caused by inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), diverticulitis and cancer. We frequently are able to do minimally invasive laparoscopic or robotic colon surgery in many of our patients. These are operations that are technically challenging and many General and Colorectal Surgeons use larger incisions to do these operations, with the national average of minimally invasive colon removal being less than 30 to 40% of these operations. Because of our minimally invasive approach, many patients are discharged only a few days following the surgery.