Special Issue "New Techniques and Progress in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery"

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, entitled “New Techniques and Progress of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery”.

Surgical resection is the cornerstone of curative intent therapy for colorectal cancer (CRC). Laparoscopic surgery, which requires four or five incisions, has been widely performed as a standardized operation in clinical work. The last decade has witnessed the emergence of multiple new techniques and progress in the pursuit of “scarless” surgery, in order to further minimize the trauma, reduce postoperative pain and improve cosmetic effect, including natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), robotic surgery, transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) and single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS), among others. This Special Issue aims to serve as an overview of the currently available knowledge and recent findings regarding the novel techniques and progress in laparoscopic colorectal surgery.

We welcome review, original research and method articles focusing on, but not limited to, the following:

1) Short- and long-term oncological outcomes and advances, as well as differences between NOTES, robot-assisted surgery, taTME, SILS and conventional laparoscopic colorectal surgery.
2) With the development of artificial intelligence, many technologies are also available that can assist surgeons in marking the appropriate range of lesions and lymph nodes, such as intraoperative fluorescence navigation, etc.
3) Meanwhile, the combination of laparoscopic surgery and radiotherapy or chemotherapy in terms of timing  is also being explored to further prolong progression-free survival.
4) The oncological outcome, present status and prospect of single-incision laparoscopic surgery and robot-assisted surgery in colorectal cancer.

Dr. Ren Zhao
Prof. Dr. Weihua Qiu
Dr. Xi Cheng
Prof. Dr. Wei Zhang
Dr. Guanyu Yu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Clinical Medicine is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• laparoscopic surgery
• colorectal cancer
• single-incision laparoscopic surgery
• intraoperative fluorescence navigation
• robot-assisted surgery
• NOTES
• taTME
• “scarless” surgery