Focus on technical advancement in mini-invasive hepatobiliary

The current special series focusing on recent technical advancements in hepatobiliary (HPB) surgery fully achieved the main aim of sharing with the surgical community some tips and tricks useful for daily practice. Several well-known HPB surgeons contributed with high-level multimedia articles giving precious and detailed technical pieces of advice covering the most common clinical situations occurring during minimally invasive liver and pancreatic resection including for example: how to perform an efficient minimally invasive ultrasound-guided parenchyma-sparing liver resection, how to obtain a safe total pedicle clamping or an extra-glissonian control of each single pedicle. Moreover, the present special issue reported some news insight on growing interest in robotic pancreatic resections, minimally invasive approaches for complex cases and it reported innovative techniques aiming to extend the resection margins during liver surgery.

Acknowledgments

It was a real pleasure for us to coordinate the series and we wish to thank all the authors for their efforts.

Funding: None.

Footnote

Provenance and Peer Review: This article was commissioned by the editorial office, Digestive Medicine Research for the series “Focus on Technical Advancement in Mini-invasive HPB Surgery”. The article did not undergo external peer review.

Conflicts of Interest: Both authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at https://dmr.amegroups.org/article/view/10.21037/dmr-23-25/coif). The series “Focus on Technical Advancement in Mini-invasive HPB Surgery” was commissioned by the editorial office without any funding or sponsorship. E.R. serves as an unpaid editorial board member of Digestive Medicine Research from September 2022 to August 2024. E.R. and J.S.A. served as the unpaid Guest Editors of the series.

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Edoardo Rosso

Juan Santiago Azagra