Editorial: Challenges, techniques and pitfalls in surgery: How far can we push the boundaries?

Abstract

Editorial on the Research TopicChallenges, techniques and pitfalls in surgery: How far can we push the boundaries?In the last decade, surgery to relevant was subjected to relevant improvement thanks technological innovations and consequent novel surgical techniques. The actual surgical panorama gained by the progress of minimally invasive surgery that has become the gold standard for several procedures historically performed with open access. This evolution involved different surgical fields, including general surgery, urology, gynaecology and many other specialities (1-3). Further evolution of minimally invasive surgery was represented by ultra-minimally invasive surgery, which is currently running through two different philosophies: the port size decreasing (3mm vs 5-10mm) (4) and the reduction of the incision numbers, represented by the single port approach (5). The latest innovations are represented by robotics. This technology allows for overcoming many limits of traditional endoscopy, even reducing the invasiveness.Moreover, the different available platforms can actually allow for reduced costs (6). Furthermore, adjuvant therapies and new softwares can become fundamental in surgery. Therefore, these technologies could be useful even in different specialties as general surgery, surgical oncology, gynaecology, urology, etc. (7-12).It was an very pleasure to serve as Guest Editors of the Research Topic of Frontiers entitled "Challenges, Techniques and Pitfalls in Surgery: How Far Can We Push the Boundaries?". This Research Topic provides an overview of the last innovation in surgery and contributes to the field's growth. All authors on the Research Topic contribute significantly to clinical and basic research advancements. Therefore, we present a collection of articles reported by authors from different specialities as general surgery to more specialistic surgical subspecialties. The article treated in this Research Topic could be useful for students, researchers and clinicians.