🎨The JSES 2025 Illustration Contest showcases 124 innovative endoscopic surgery techniques. 🚀Starting now, we present the top 21! Learn, share, and help select the grand prize winner with your likes and reposts! #JSES #EAES #SAGES #ELSA

JSES IllustCon 49 📌Traction of the Medial Umbilical Fold and Its Arterial Origins in TAPP 📝This illustration highlights depth-conscious maneuvers and anatomical awareness in TAPP, depicting the medial umbilical fold retracted as “opening a door with forceps” and “its origin

JSES IllustCon 48 📌Three-Step Vascular Layer Dissection in Left-Posterior Approach during Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy 📝From an embryological perspective, the anatomy around the meso-pancreas is broken down into vascular layers. Three steps for approaching the

JSES IllustCon 47 📌Technical strategies for safe surgical field exposure and pancreatic mobilization in laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy 📝In laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic malignancy, we improved visualization by gastric retraction and cotton tape traction

JSES IllustCon 46 📌Surgical approach in robotic distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma - Caudo-dorsal view approach behind the body and tail of pancreas ? 📝RDP for PDAC employs a caudo-dorsal view approach with “no-touch” technique, ensuring adequate

JSES IllustCon 45 📌The Safe Dissection Plane in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy 📝The Critical View of Safety (CVS) has been used to ensure safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy, but bile duct or vascular injury may occur before CVS is achieved. The illustration shown here is

JSES IllustCon 44 📌Butterfly Traction: Changing Traction, Changing Cholecystectomy 📝A new traction method that standardizes gallbladder bed dissection in cholecystectomy. Figure modified from a manuscript under review in ASES. 🖊Noguchi Daisuke #JSESイラストコンテスト

JSES IllustCon 43 📌Etiology and Prevention of Internal Hernia Following Laparoscopic Left Hemicolectomy 📝Considerations on the Etiology of Internal Hernia Following Laparoscopic Left Hemicolectomy, and Proposed Preventive Strategies as Alternatives to Mesenteric Defect Closure

JSES IllustCon 42 📌Penetrate, Connect, and Conquer: A Double-Hole Medial Approach in Robotic Right Hemicolectomy 📝Innovative dual penetration of the transverse mesocolon achieves safe vascular handling and complete D3 lymphadenectomy. 🖊Tateno Yuki #JSESイラストコンテスト

JSES IllustCon 41 📌All-in-one illustration of the mediastinoscopic esophagectomy 📝Transcervical en bloc lymphadenectomy in mediastinoscopic radical esophagectomy. Anatomical features such as great vessels, small arteries and nerve branches are comprehensively included in the

JSES IllustCon 40 📌Bottom-first approach for obturator lymph node dissection in rectal cancer 📝A ventral approach from the vas deferens (round ligament) provides wide-view direct access to distal obturator nodes often involved in lower rectal cancer. 🖊Yatabe Yusuke

JSES IllustCon 39 📌Intraabdominal anastomosis in robot-assisted right hemicolectomy 📝Uninterrupted approach and reliable anastomosis 🖊SUTO AKIKO #JSESイラストコンテスト　#JSES_illustration_contest

JSES IllustCon 38 📌Shutters down 📝Surgical Procedure of Robot-Assisted Proximal Gastrectomy 🖊Anonymous #JSESイラストコンテスト　#JSES_illustration_contest

JSES IllustCon 37 📌Mesenteric Kocher maneuver 📝In robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy, lifting the mesentery and performing Kocher maneuver from the caudal side provides an excellent surgical view. 🖊Chimpan surgeon #JSESイラストコンテスト　#JSES_illustration_contest

JSES IllustCon 36 📌mSOFY reconstruction manual 📝This illustration was designed to enhance the reproducibility of the mSOFY reconstruction. By highlighting key intraoperative tips, it aims to provide an educational resource that is clear and accessible for young surgeons and

JSES IllustCon 35 📌Fusion RAMIE: Mastering the Assistant’s Role 📝This illustration highlights the assistant’s role in RAMIE, showing how active participation can shorten operative time and foster the training of future surgeons. 🖊Hatanaka Yuji #JSESイラストコンテスト

JSES IllustCon 34 📌Traction Technique: Enhancing Precise Robotic Liver Resection 📝This illustration demonstrates a Traction Technique in robotic hepatectomy, using the modified pulley maneuver (Tomino et al. Asian J Endosc Surg. 2024) to ensure stable exposure and precise

JSES IllustCon 33 📌Understanding infrapyloric lymph node dissection by layers 📝The infrapyloric lymph region consists of an “arterial layer” and a “venous layer”, which are attached to the vertical plane formed by the surface of the pancreatic head and the duodenal wall.

JSES IllustCon 32 📌A more beautiful and comprehensive view of the entire liver (cirrhosis) 📝I drew a picture of the entire liver, which I am most familiar with, as a cirrhosis version. I think it will be easy to write and explain in a simple manner during preoperative

JSES IllustCon 31 📌CLEAR Technique: Cautious Liver Elevation by Adaptive Retraction Using Vessel Tape 📝By retracting the remnant liver using vessel tapes, delicate tension control is possible to avoid injury to the remnant liver caused by excessive traction, enabling liver

JSES IllustCon 30 📌For safety posterior RAMPS 📝To achieve adequate tumor margins in robot-assisted distal pancreatosplenectomy (p-RAMPS), it is often necessary to selectively through the layers. This illustration presents the essential view and the drain placement technique for