Giusto Pignata • Francesco Corcione
Umberto Bracale
Editors
2014
Current Applications and Controversies
It is a great pleasure to introduce this volume, which has the purpose of acquainting the scientific community with the state-of-the-art and most recent progress in single- access laparoscopic surgery. The idea of exploring this topic arose from the need to take stock on this new surgical approach, which has been employed more frequently in recent years and has attracted increasing interest from the medical community, a trend reflected in the growing number of citations in scientific publications.