Is a paper intending to fully exploit the Internet's resources in the field of scientific diffusion. It is our opinion that an On-line Journal devoted to such a still expanding branch of surgery as laparoscopy may "take advantage of" the Internet better than any traditional paper.
Thanks to the web resources, the published articles may be furnished with photographs and videos which may better explain or point out anatomical aspects, new technique and surgical procedures possibly described. All the same, each article will be selected on the basis of the same scientific strictness and thorough statistical analysis as traditional papers.