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Editorial

Minimal access surgery is a technology-based surgery. The everchanging innovations in the realm of
laparoscopy/robotic and endoscopy surgery are taking place at such a rapid pace that the practitioner
of this discipline always feels lagging behind the new developments.
The 21st century owes the rapid improvement of human race primarily to the advancement in
information technology. The tremendous improvement in computing/digitalizations of applications has
led to the emergence of single incision laparoscopic surgery, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic
surgery, robotic surgery and other emerging techniques.
The World Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery (WJOLS) is a reputed journal and its editorial board
includes a number of national and international surgeons, who pioneered and improved the advanced minimal access
surgery techniques. The WJOLS is now one of the most sought-after journal for original and review articles on the newest
techniques and applications in operative laparoscopy, endoscopy and other da Vinci robotic surgery.
I am very happy to tell all our readers that WJOLS in its new Avatar provides complete, timely, accurate, practical
coverage of laparoscopic techniques and procedures. It also includes current and basic research topics, preoperative
and postoperative patient management, complications in laparoscopy and endoscopy surgery, and new development in
laparoscopy and da Vinci robotic instrumentation and technology.
Rk mishra
Editor-in-Chief

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