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Editorial

I would like to welcome readers to the World journal of laparoscopic surgery for this issue. Now
it is an established fact that WJOLS is one of the most popular international scientific, technical,
medical journals of Jaypee Brothers. Jaypee, as the pioneer medical publisher is linked to the
world, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with
many of the world’s leading medical societies. Jaypee online library hosts the world’s one of the
broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online medical resources with hundreds of
reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
Featuring a clean and simple interface, online portal of World journal of laparoscopic surgery
(www.wjols.com) delivers intuitive navigation, enhanced discoverability, expanded functionalities and a range of
personalization and alerting options. The journal continues to progress with a strong inflow of submissions from
surgeons and gynecologists from all over world and a concerted push for us to keep turnaround times to a minimum.
Our current manuscript turnaround time for WJOLS journal is under 10 weeks on an average despite an increasing
new paper submission rate.
We are in the process of final step for getting this journal indexed in PubMed this year and have a healthy pipeline
of accepted ‘Minimal access surgery articles’ awaiting publication of a quality that continues to increase. We also
continue to strengthen the quality of the editorial board, with the recent addition of new editors in it.
This issue contains many articles with a strong emphasis on recent advancements in minimal access surgery, but
also a taste of review articles which will be giving the reader a flavor of evidence-based surgery. I hope the readers
will like this issue very much and will give their valuable feedback.
RK Mishra
Editor-in-Chief

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