The Robotic Thoracic Surgery: A Collection of Clinical Pearls, is a collection of papers, recently published by experts in this fields working in renowned Centers all over the world, which provides an exhaustive review of surgical aspects and current debated issues of robotic approach to thoracic surgical disease.

In its three sections, Thymectomy, Esophagectomy and Pulmonary Surgery, the authors discuss different robotic surgical techniques highlighting their positives and negatives, indications to robotic surgery in mediastinal and lung disease, complications related to robotic approach and advantages and disadvantages of using robots over other minimally invasive approach such as uniportal and multiportal VATS.

In this way, the reader has a complete scenario of current robotic thoracic surgery and this textbook may be used by young surgeons as a guide, while they approach this art. Moreover, we guess that also senior surgeons may have a great opportunity to go deep into the topic of robotic surgery, profitably comparing their clinical practice with the reported experiences of the most relevant experts in this field.