Advances and Future Challenges of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Children: 2nd Edition
This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Surgery".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The goal of minimally invasive surgery is to perform operations through very small incisions with equal or superior clinical outcomes and less impact on a patient’s body and organs. Minimally invasive surgery has become very popular over the last 30 years. Minimally invasive surgery within the pediatric population was slow to advance, but has rapidly expanded to include all major pediatric surgical procedures in infants and children over the last 20 years. The benefits to the patient are great, but the technical hurdles are many due to the varied size and physiology of this patient population.
The goal of this Special Issue is to discuss all aspects of minimally invasive surgery in the pediatric population. Pediatric surgeons and researchers are invited to contribute their manuscripts from all aspects of minimally invasive surgery. Contributions can be of different character, including original articles (prospective/retrospective studies), experimental studies, review articles, systemic reviews, new surgical techniques and learning curves relating minimally invasive surgery. Please avoid single case reports.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Zenon Pogorelić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- minimally invasive pediatric surgery
- pediatric laparoscopic surgery
- video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in children
- robotic pediatric surgery
- minimally invasive surgery in pediatric urology
- learning curves in minimally invasive pediatric surgery
- anesthesia in pediatric minimally invasive surgery
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Published Papers
Children - ISSN 2227-9067