Comment

The papers published in this issue have great research and clinical merits. Ten papers concern minimally invasive surgery, mainly laparoscopic. These are the papers from the CMKP Clinical Ward of General Surgery and GIT Surgery. Some of them are original papers presenting the authors’ own work.

Pioneering on a national scale are the papers describing the treatment results of achalasia using laparoscopic cardiomyotomy in combination with Nissen fundoplication (Ciesielski A. et al.) and the treatment of morbid obesity using laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (Binda A. et al.). The authors present in both papers the very encouraging preliminary treatment results.

An important paper is the publication by Prof. W. Tarnowski presenting very good early results of colorectal cancer treatment using the laparoscopic technique. In 73 patients conversion was performed in 17% of cases, and the level of anastomosis leakage was only 4.1%. In my opinion these are very good results. Dr Grous A. et al. presents the treatment results of large abdominal hernias, most often post-operative, using the IPOM method. The authors had to perfor

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