Korean Journal of Urology
ⒸThe Korean Urological Association, 2013 491 Korean J Urol 2013;54:491
www.kjurology.org
http://dx.doi.org/10.4111/kju.2013.54.8.491
Editorial
The Era of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
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It has been well over 20 years since the first laparoscopic nephrectomy was performed and it marked the beginning of a new era of minimally invasive surgery. The trend to-ward minimally invasive surgery was fueled even more by the advent of surgical robotic systems in early 2000's and completely changed how we practice urology all over the world.
Reflecting this trend, the most common subspeciality of current submission to Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) is in this exciting field of robotic and minimally invasive surgery. As Korea leads the clinical surgical robotic experi-ence in Asia, KJU introduced many new concepts in robotic urology recently. As KJU is striving to be a rapid open ac-cess international journal, we embrace the submission in this new and exciting field.
KJU is indexed in PubMed and Scopus and also in PubMed Central search engine, which makes an ideal ave-nue of publishing bright, innovative new concepts in
ro-botic and minimally invasive surgery. KJU also has “rapid communications” section to offer those late breaking manuscripts which requires special attention, where many of these articles become obsolete after a lengthy review process.
At KJU, we would like to embrace to publish the best nov-el pioneering work both in clinical and research aspects of robotic minimally invasive surgery. With your contri-bution will help KJU become more internationally circu-lated journal in urology. I look forward to see your hard work in future editions of KJU!
Koon Ho Rha, MD, PhD
Associate Editor
Section of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Urology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei Univesity College of Medicine, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea
