The Problem of Laparoscopic Entry in Modern Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Surgery

Call for Papers

Laparoscopy is the common method to operate visualizing the peritoneal cavity, using camera and telescopes during minimally invasive endoscopic surgery.

Compared to laparotomy, minimally invasive procedures such as laparoscopy have the advantage of reduced inpatient time and therefore morbidity, reduced pain, and a quicker recovery time.

The ability to operate in laparoscopy is subjective while the laparoscopic access is objectively common to all surgeons, as well as the first step of intervention.

Although usually safe, a small worldwide minority of patients experiences life-threatening complications, including injuries to the blood vessels and the bowel.

Laparoscopic injuries frequently occur during the insertion of needles, trocars, and cannulae through the abdominal wall, and, hence, the period of greatest risk is from the start of the procedure, until visualization within the peritoneal cavity has been established.

The problem of laparoscopic entry is still unsolved, and, despite the various techniques adopted by the surgical community, it has not yet been able to determine which could be the correct access in all patients. Over the years, optimization of entry port development has aimed to maximize ease of entry and effort and minimize side effects and damage.

Other surgical problems from which there is no consensus on common entry is that there are many types of patients to operate on: slim, fat, young, postmenopausal, oncological, patients already operated on, and so on, especially by new techniques, as single port surgery, minilaparoscopy-assisted natural orifice surgery, and natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, or by new instruments, as robotic-assisted surgery.

We invite all surgeons involved in laparoscopic surgery to participate in this issue sending papers on new techniques of access, controversies and drawback of laparoscopic access, and perspectives of minimally invasive technology in laparoscopic assistance on entry. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Traditional closed or open laparoscopic entries
• New laparoscopic entry methods and devices
• Classical and innovative laparoscopic entry sites
• Variations in laparoscopic entry related to type of patients and relative disease to operate on
• New operative methods and their laparoscopic access
• Robotic-assisted surgery and trocars entry

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Lead Guest Editor

• Andrea Tinelli, Division of Experimental Endoscopic Surgery, Imaging, Minimally Invasive Therapy, and Technology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce, Italy

Guest Editors

• Yong-Soon Kwon, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Dong-gu, Republic of Korea
• Jun Kumakiri, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
• Daniel A. Tsin, Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, Long Island, NY 1102-2418, USA
• Wael Sammur, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, German Medical Centre, Dubai, UAE