The Influence of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery on Abdominal Diseases and Current Clinical Treatments
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 3496
Special Issue Editors
Interests: minimally invasive surgery; acute care surgery; surgical education; colorectal surgery; upper GI diseases and surgery
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2. Urological Unit, New Apuans Alpi Hospital, 54100 Massa, Italy
Interests: urology; robotic surgery; laparoscopic surgery; US guided urological surgery
2. Department of General and HPB Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy
Interests: pancreas surgery; robotic surgery; MIS; surgical oncology
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Dear Colleagues,
Laparoscopic and robotic surgeries have gained wide acceptance among both patients and surgeons. Minimally invasive surgery has become the gold standard for cholecistectomy, appendectomy and annessectomy. Other conditions, such as hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases and living organ transplantation, are now possible to treat by laparoscopy or several robotic platforms. In addition, other surgical specialties, including gynecology, urology and pediatrics, have witnessed the increased adoption of minimally invasive surgery.
For these reasons, we invite you to participate in this Special Issue aiming to report the techniques, current treatments, ongoing research, and short- and long-term outcomes of robotic or laparoscopic surgery.
Furthermore, any comparison between robotic and laparoscopic surgery is also advisable.
Dr. Gianluca Costa
Dr. Maurizio De Maria
Dr. Niccolò Petrucciani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laparoscopic surgery
- robotic surgery
- minimally invasive surgery
- upper GI surgery
- colorectal surgery
- HBP surgery
- transplantation
- urology
- obstetrics and gynecology
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