Editorial Board
90 Editors in 19 Countries/Regions



















Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Michel Gagner 
[email protected] Editor-in-Chief
Giulio Belli
[email protected]Regional Editor
Lianxin Liu
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
Section Editor
Marco. G Patti 
Advisory Editors
Mario Morino 
Rasa Zarnegar 
Associate Editors
Alberto Aiolfi 
Davide Bona 
Mario Costantini 
Fernando A. M. Herbella 
Achalasia management: the South American viewpoint
How I teach it - a didactic approach to laparoscopic surgery at the esophagogastric junction
How I teach it – a didactic approach to laparoscopic surgery at the esophagogastric junction
Minimizing complications after minimally invasive surgery for thoracic diverticula of the esophagus
Itasu Ninomiya 
Francisco Schlottmann 
Fukunaga Tetsu 
Paolo Ubiali
Colorectal Surgery
Section Editor
Roel Hompes
Advisory Editors
Davide Cavaliere 
Alaa El-Hussuna 
Associate Editors
Biondi Alberto 
Charles F. Bellows
John Camilleri-Brennan 
Renato Costi 
Simon Ng
Pierpaolo Sileri
Hepato-Biliary Surgery
Section Editor
Ho Seong Han 
Advisory Editors
Xiujun Cai
Ioannis T. Konstantinidis 
Fabrizio Panaro
Associate Editors
Fernando A. Alvarez 
Tan To Cheung 
Chaoliu Dai
Mariano Giménez
Andrew Gumbs 
Kit-fai Lee 
Zhao Li
Roberto Montalti 
Zenichi Morise 
Go Wakabayashi
Feng Xia
Pancreatic Surgery
Section Editor
Yuman C. Fong 
Advisory Editors
Andrea Belli
Aslam Ejaz 
Associate Editors
Stefano Maria Massimiliano Basso 
Liang Liu
Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Section Editor
Shanu Kothari
Advisory Editors
Jerry Dang 
Chetan Parmar 
Associate Editors
David Nocca
Luis Poggi
Tomasz Rogula
Wah Yang 
Jiangfan Zhu
Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery
Section Editor
William Hope 
Advisory Editor
Luca Gordini 
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Section Editor
Ferdinando Agresta 
Advisory Editors
Belinda De Simone 
Andy Petroianu 
Thoracic Surgery
Section Editor
Yogesh Vashist 
Advisory Editors
Ghulam Abbas 
Noriyoshi Sawabata 
Associate Editors
Christopher Cao 
Farid Gharagozloo
Robotic selective thoracic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis
Robotic Lateral Heller Myotomy Without Fundoplication for Achalasia
Pain Management after Robotic Thoracic Surgery
Minimally Invasive Surgical Approaches to Thoracic Sympathectomy for Hyperhidrosis
The Technique of Robotic Lobectomy I: Right Sided Lobes
The Technique of Robotic Lobectomy II: Left Sided Lobes
Technique of Robotic Lobectomy III: Control of Major Vascular Injury, The 5 “P”’s
The Technique of Robotic Anatomic Pulmonary Segmentectomy I: Right Sided Segments
The Technique of Robotic Anatomic Pulmonary Segmentectomy II: Left Sided Segments
Technique of Robotic First Rib Resection for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Marcello Migliore 
Alan D.L. Sihoe
Piergiorgio Solli 
Ruoyu Zhang 
Yong Zhang 
Cardiac Surgery
Section Editor
Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai 
Advisory Editors
Azeem Latib
Igor F. Palacios 
Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty - State of the Art
Urology
Section Editor
Riccardo Autorino 
Advisory Editors
Richard Naspro 
Juan Gómez Rivas 
Associate Editors
Riccardo Giuseppe Bertolo 
Giovanni E Cacciamani 
Geert De Naeyer 
Sey Kiat Terence Lim 
Chi-Fai Ng 
Yasar Ozgok
Gynecology
Section Editor
Simone Ferrero 
Endoscopy
Section Editor
Lee Swanström 
Advisory Editors
Anastasios Koulaouzidis
Jean‐François Rey 
Associate Editors
Zhuan Liao 
Stefano Pontone 
Spinal Surgery
Section Editor
Yoshihisa Kotani
Advisory Editors
Akihiko Hiyama 
Hisashi Koga 
Preface of the special issue on "Percutaneous endoscopic system for spinal diseases"
Improved percutaneous endoscopic translaminar approach for lumbar foraminal stenosis at L5/S1
Minimal laminectomy using the interlaminar approach for percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy
Head and Neck Surgery
Section Editor
Ehab Hanna 
Associate Editors
Felice Esposito 
Alfio Wo Ferlito
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