Gastrointestinal Surgery: Diagnosis and Management in 2025
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 609
Special Issue Editor
Interests: general surgery; emergency surgery; translational research; surgical education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gastrointestinal surgery is an evolving field of interest for clinicians and researchers, especially in emergency and oncology settings. In emergency gastrointestinal surgery, the importance of correct and rapid diagnosis is highly dependent on clinical experience and the volume of cases treated. Improved treatment protocols for patients with locally advanced or metastatic cancer are currently the subject of multidisciplinary research. The predictive approach aimed at identifying the precise tumor staging and indication for personalized therapy is a constantly evolving field of interest. The selection of the most appropriate diagnostic program and treatment regimen must be carefully established based on multidisciplinary expertise that takes into account the patient's specific risk, length of stay, and functional recovery. For many gastrointestinal diseases, new digital technologies can be applied for both diagnostic and therapeutic-surgical purposes. For this Special Issue, we invite clinical and experimental research focused on diagnosis and treatment adjuvant to gastrointestinal surgery. Studies that can help to clarify the following topics are welcome: diagnosis of abdominal trauma, diagnosis of oligometastatic disease, diagnosis of mesorectal metastases, and diagnosis of lymph node metastases in upper gastrointestinal cancer. In addition, studies on minimally invasive surgical procedures for the treatment of metastatic gastrointestinal diseases are strongly encouraged.
Dr. Federico Selvaggi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal trauma
- oligometastatic disease
- mesorectal metastasis
- lymphnode metastasis
- minimally invasive surgical therapy
- endoscopic diagnosis
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