The volume 2 of this book covers the recent developments in various aspects of this new branch of surgery. Minimal Access Surgery (laparoscopic and robotic surgery) has advanced tremendously in the last few years. This volume provides step-by-step descriptions accompanied by numerous helpful photographs and anatomical drawings. It also covers the controversies and gives a cumulative opinion on the recent advances in MAS including MAS in oncology. Further topics are based on system wise and all volumes have separate chapters on the different topics within the system.

This volume fills the void of a manual in minimal access surgery which benefits all, including the students of fellowships MAS, Master of Surgery, DNB Surgery and also young faculty or any practitioner.

About the Author

Dr Deborshi Sharma [MS, MRCS-Ed, FMAS, MMAS (Upper GI)] is a Director Professor in Department of Surgery, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences & Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare government of India. Dr Sharma has a teaching experience of more than 25 yrs including his faculty tenure in the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India from 2004-07. At present he has more than 65 publications in peer reviewed journals including Surgical endoscopy and Obesity Surgery. Over the years he has presented numerous papers and delivered lectures & orations in India and abroad including SAGES. He has made immense contributions to minimal access surgery in the central government sector of India, treating the poor and underprivileged. Apart from being editor of Recent Concepts in Minimal Access Surgery Volume 1 published by Springer Nature in 2022, Dr Sharma has also served as Secretary of the Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India in 2022-24 along with being an associate editor since 2012 and from 2019 as an editorial board member of Indian Journal of Surgery (IJOS). Recently he has also been elected as an executive member of association of surgeons of India (2025-27) representing Delhi State Chapter.

Dr Priya Hazrah, (MS, Fellowship Oncology, FMAS, DipMAS, MMAS) graduated from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India and was awarded a gold medal in surgery as also best junior resident award. She further pursued training in surgical oncology from Gujarat Cancer Research Institute Ahmedabad, Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai and Roswell Park Cancer Center Buffalo, New York. With a keen interest to consolidate her training in minimal access surgery she completed her Diploma in Minimal Access surgery and MMAS (HPB Surgery) from the college of AMASI and also completed a fellowship in minimally invasive thoracic surgery from Roswell Park Cancer Center Buffalo, New York. Currently, she is working as a Professor in the Department of Surgery, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare government of India and is affiliated with the University of Delhi. She has over 30 publications, is a peer reviewer of many national and international journals and was a co editor of Recent Concepts in Minimal Access Surgery Volume 1 published by Springer Nature in 2022. She has delivered numerous CME lectures and presentations in various national and international conferences/meetings.

Book Information
ISBN 9789819627424
Author Deborshi Sharma
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG