Title	Publication Date	Language	Citations
Cosmesis and body image after laparoscopic-assisted and open ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease	1998/11/01	English	256
Evaluating laparoscopic skills	2003/06/01		254
Obesity surgery: Evidence-based guidelines of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)	2004/12/02	English	250
Fundamental principles of validation, and reliability: rigorous science for the assessment of surgical education and training	2003/10/01		249
Robotic-assisted laparoscopic low anterior resection with total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer	2006/08/01	English	247
Prospective randomized study of open versus laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy with extraperigastric lymph node dissection for early gastric cancer	2005/07/28	English	244
COLOR III: a multicentre randomised clinical trial comparing transanal TME versus laparoscopic TME for mid and low rectal cancer	2015/11/04	English	244
Single-port laparoscopic surgery: an overview	2009/04/04	English	242
Mesh complications after prosthetic reinforcement of hiatal closure: a 28-case series	2008/12/06	English	241
Robot-assisted laparoscopic pancreatic surgery: single-surgeon experience	2010/01/09	English	241
A consensus document on robotic surgery	2007/12/28	English	240
Laparoscopy for abdominal emergencies	2005/10/24	English	234
One-trocar appendectomy in pediatric surgery	1998/02/01		234
Fewer adhesions induced by laparoscopic surgery?	2004/06/01	English	231
Clinical practice guidelines of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) on bariatric surgery: update 2020 endorsed by IFSO-EC, EASO and ESPCOP	2020/04/23	English	231
Transgastric endoscopic splenectomy	2006/01/21	English	231
Experience with over 3,000 open and laparoscopic bariatric procedures: Multivariate analysis of factors related to leak and resultant mortality	2004/02/01		230
The use of indocyanine green fluorescence to assess anastomotic perfusion during robotic assisted laparoscopic rectal surgery	2013/02/13	English	230
Comparison of ultrasonic energy, bipolar thermal energy, and vascular clips for the hemostasis of small-, medium-, and large-sized arteries	2003/08/01		229
Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: surgery without a visible scar	2008/09/25	English	224
Performing laparoscopic surgery is significantly more stressful for the surgeon than open surgery	2001/10/01	English	222
Diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis. EAES consensus development conference 2015	2016/09/22	English	221
Is minimally invasive surgery beneficial in the management of esophageal cancer? A meta-analysis	2010/01/28	English	219
A novel approach using the enhanced-view totally extraperitoneal (eTEP) technique for laparoscopic retromuscular hernia repair	2017/09/15	English	217
Emergency preoperative stenting versus surgery for acute left-sided malignant colonic obstruction: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	2010/12/18	English	215
Endoscopic full-thickness resection without laparoscopic assistance for gastric submucosal tumors originated from the muscularis propria	2011/03/18	English	214
Robotic tumor-specific mesorectal excison of rectal cancer: short-term outcome of a pilot randomized trial	2008/02/13	English	213
Guidelines for laparoscopic treatment of ventral and incisional abdominal wall hernias (International Endohernia Society (IEHS)—Part 1	2013/10/11	English	212
Laparoscopic treatment vs open surgery in the solution of major incisional and abdominal wall hernias with mesh	1999/03/01	English	212
Surgical smoke: a review of the literature	2003/06/01		211