Abdominal Surgery: Innovative Techniques and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Abdominal surgery remains a cornerstone of general and specialized surgical care, encompassing a wide range of pathologies managed through elective and emergency procedures. In recent decades, the field has witnessed the steady integration of minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques, which have enhanced patient outcomes in terms of safety, recovery, and complication rates. Despite this progress, challenges remain in optimizing surgical decision-making, managing complex clinical cases, and standardizing care across diverse healthcare systems.

This Special Issue, entitled “Abdominal Surgery: Innovative Techniques and Challenges”, invites high-quality submissions focused on real-world improvements in surgical techniques, patient selection, perioperative management, and long-term outcomes. We welcome the submission of original research articles, clinical trials, and systematic reviews (+/− meta-analyses) that explore surgical strategies in benign and malignant disease, innovations in minimally invasive approaches, risk stratification, and postoperative complication prevention.

Particular emphasis will be placed on evidence-based practices that improve patient safety and outcomes, including enhanced recovery protocols, surgical education, and the multidisciplinary management of surgical disease. Submissions that evaluate the role of technology (e.g., intraoperative imaging or AI-supported clinical decision-making) are also welcome to be submitted, provided that they are firmly grounded in clinical utility and outcomes.

This Special Issue seeks to bring together the expertise of abdominal surgeons and multidisciplinary teams to advance the field through critical evaluation and the dissemination of clinically relevant innovations.

Dr. Tania Triantafyllou
Guest Editors

Dr. Athanasios Pantelis
Guest Editor Assistant

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