Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreword -- Pre-operative -- Perioperative Assessment -- Patient Positioning, Instrumentation, and Trocar placement -- Surgical Anatomy -- Right Colectomy: Straight Laparoscopic -- Right Colectomy: Hand-Assist -- Laparoscopic Left/Sigmoid Colectomy -- Hand Assisted Left Colectomy -- Total Abdominal Colectomy: Straight Laparoscopic Approach -- Total Abdominal Colectomy: Hand Assisted Approach -- Operative Details of Laparoscopic Rectal Resection for Cancer -- Laparoscopic Hand-Assisted Low Anterior Resection -- Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Resection -- Laparoscopic Proctocolectomy -- Laparoscopic Rectopexy -- Minimally Invasive Approach for Stoma Creation -- Laparoscopic Stomal Reversal -- Laparoscopic Parastomal Hernia Repair -- Overcoming Technical Challenges: The Abdomen -- Overcoming Technical Challenges: The Pelvis -- Overcoming Technical Challenges: Reoperative Surgery -- Overcoming Technical Challenges: Prevention and Managing Complications -- Single-Incision Laparoscopic Approaches to Colorectal Disease -- Natural Orifice Surgery (NOTES) -- Robotic Surgery -- Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS): Operative Technique, Pitfalls, and Tips -- Combined Endo-Laparoscopic Surgery (CELS) -- Emergency Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery -- Laparoscopy in the Elderly Patient -- Laparoscopic Colectomy in the Obese Patient -- Minimally Invasive Surgery in Crohn's Disease Patients -- Minimally Invasive Surgery in Ulcerative Colitis Patients -- Minimally Invasive Approaches to Colon and Rectal Disease: Techniques and Best Practices - Pediatrics -- Laparoscopy in Pregnant Patients -- Economics of Laparoscopic Colectomy -- Outcomes of Laparoscopic Surgery -- Future Directions in Minimally Invasive Surgery.