1. A history of modern-day video surgery with and without robotic assistance Barbara Page and Nataliya Vang; 2. Equipment for operative laparoscopy and hysteroscopy; 2.1 The role of medical equipment in healthcare's evolution Ali Amiri; 2.2 Laparoscopic equipment and operating room setup Shruti Agarwal, Elizabeth Buescher, Erica Schipper and Camran Nezhat; 3. Anesthesia Pedro P. Tanaka, Robert T. Arrigo, Arjun Desai and John H. Nguyen; 4. Patient positioning and operating room setup Ashley Bartalot and Farr Nezhat; 5. Laparoscopic access; 5.1 Safe laparoscopic access Louise P. King, Atena Asiaii, Nataliya Vang, Ceana Nezhat, Azadeh Nezhat, Ibrahim Alkatout, Liselotte Mettler, Roger Ferland and Farr Nezhat; 5.2 LapCap2: abdominal access safety device Camran Nezhat, Nataliya Vang and Azadeh Nezhat; 6. Laparoscopic suturing; 6.1 Video laparoscopic suturing: Pasic's perspective Joseph L. Hudgens Resad Pasic and Megan Burns; 6.2 New suturing techniques: barbed sutures Jon I. Einarsson and Sarah L. Cohen Rassier; 6.3 Advanced, stylistic video laparoscopic suturing Deborah Lee, Akira Shirane and Shanti Mohling; 7. Pelvic Anatomy; 7.1 Intraperitoneal and retroperitoneal anatomy Marcello Ceccaroni, Roberto Clarizia, Daniele Mautone and Giovanni Roviglione; 7.2 The new space Robert Roman, Anupama Rambhatla, Atena Asiaii, Lovely Jethwani and Catarina Miranda-Silva; 8. Hysteroscopy; 8.1 Diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy Sara McKinney and Louise P King; 8.2 Evaluation and management of the uterine septum Jovana Tavcar, Kelly Wright and Keith Isaacson; 8.3 Intrauterine adhesions: hysteroscopic evaluation and treatment Rafael F. Valle, edited by Keith Isaacson and Lydia Garcia; 8.4 Video hysteroscopic tubal cannulation Tommaso Falcone and Jeffrey M. Goldberg; 9. Fertility; 9.1 Frontiers in Fertility Kutluk Oktay and Giuliano Bedoschi; 9.2 Assessment of the endometrial cavity in the patient with infertility Steven R. Lindheim, Yao Lu, Yun Sun, Mindy Christianson and Artur Ludwin; 9.3 Ultrasound oocyte recovery Ebru Ozturk and Leo Dohertyand Aydin Arici; 9.4 Ultrasonography and the embryo transfer Eric Flisser and Jamie A. Grifo; 9.5 Salpingectomy and salpingostomy Neil Johnson; 9.6 Opportunistic salpingectomy: an appropriate procedure during all pelvic surgeries Camran Nezhat, Nataliya Vang, Mailinh Vu and Azadeh Nezhat; 10. Management of adnexal masses; 10.1 The adnexal mass Mahkam Tavallaee, Tanja Pejovic, Louise P. King, Michael Lewis, Erica Schipper, Cihat Unlu, Gazi Yildirim, Jennifer Cho and Camran Nezhatand Farr Nezhat; 10.2 Management of the ectopic pregnancy Bulut Varli and Bulent Berker; 10.3 Management of tubo-ovarian abscesses John F. Steege, Pavan K. Ananth and Ceana H. Nezhat; 10.4 Robotic management of inflammatory bowel disease Leslie S. Anewenah, Erin King-Mullins and Wayne L. Ambroze; 10.5 Surgical treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome Mausumi Das and Togas Tulandi; 10.6 Ovarian remnant syndrome George A. Vilos and Jennifer Marksand Basim Abu-Rafea; 11. Endometriosis; 11.1 The pathogenesis of endometriosis Richard O. Burney and Linda C. Giudice; 11.2 Video-laparoscopic management of endometriosis with and without robotic assistance Camran Nezhat, Elizabeth Buescher, Chandhu Paka, Ceana Nezhat, and Farr Nezhat; Updated by Nisha Lakhi and Gabrielle Tricorico; 11.3 Genitourinary Endometriosis Megan Kennedy Burns, Michelle A. Wood, Camran Nezhat; 11.4 Robotic assisted laparoscopic surgery for deeply infiltrating endometriosis Farr Nezhat and Nisha Lakhi; 11.5 Minimally invasive treatment of chronic pelvic pain Radu Apostol; 12 Video laparoscopic adhesiolysis and adhesion prevention Danielle Luciano and Anthony Luciano; 13 Video laparoscopic sterilization Radha Syed, Erica Schipper, Adrienne Ligouri, Gabrielle Tricorico and Nisha Lakhi; 14 Leiomyomas; 14.1 Minimally invasive management of leiomyomas M. Shoma Datta -
