Provides a comprehensive state-of-the art overview, covering the newest endoscopic, robotic, and minimal invasive surgical innovations

Describes a range of new techniques and the decision making needed to establish new therapeutic options in the management of diseases when applying new technologies

Written by experts in the field

Overview of Current Robotic Technology.- Challenges in robotic and minimally invasive pancreatic surgery in the year 2020.- Challenges in Robotic Liver Surgery.- Robotic Esophageal Surgery.- Challenges in robotic colorectal surgery.- Robotic flexible endoscopes.- Robotized MIS instruments: filling the gap between rigid tools and large robotic systems.- The Role of Endoscopic Technology in GastrointestinaI Surgery.- Indication, Technique and Results of Endoscopic Cricomyotomy.- Transesophageal Tunneling Technique and Peroral endoscopic Myotomy POEM.- The EndoFLIP(TM) system allows a tailored peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for achalasia.- G-POEM: A minimally invasive endoscopic technique for gastroparesis.- Intraluminal Endoscopic Suturing System in the Esophagus with separate Instruments.- ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING PLATFORMS FOR BARIATRIC PROCEDURES.- Transgastric endoscopic interventions at the pancreas.- Endoscopic Ultrasound guided Interventions.- EFTR - ENDOSCOPIC FULL-THICKNESS RESECTION.- New endoscopic tools for special indications.- ESD - indications, techniques and results.- The "Rendezvous"- principle in endoscopic and surgical procedures.- Percutaneous endoscopic intragastric surgery in the treatment of stromal tumors at esophagogastric junction.- Endoscopic-Surgical Platforms.- The Fortimedix Surgical Endo-surgery Platform.- Techniques and Challenges with the Master-Slave System for Endoscopic Surgery.- Transgastric intraabdominal Surgery.- Endoscopic Platforms.- Transanal Microsurgery TEM and TEO.- Transanal Endoscopic Colon Resections.- The Medrobotics Platform for transanal surgery.- The potential of single site surgery.- New Single Site Platforms.- Intraoperative imaging for procedures of the gastrointestinal tract.- Fluorescence-Guided Surgery of the Biliary Tree Utilizing Indocyanine Green (ICG).- ICG Image-Guided Surgery with the Assessment for Anastomotic Safety.- Advanced endoscopic imaging methods.- The struggle to from idea to product.- Artificial Intelligence.