"Mine is yesterday, I know tomorrow."

Tibetan book of BC 3500

I am grateful to the editorial board of Journal of Minimal Access Surgery for requesting me to be the Guest Editor for this special issue on Thoracoscopy. Never did I think that that thoracoscopy will reach such an eminence and level of acceptance worldwide. It is a tribute to surgeons who are involved in performing minimal access surgery who have taken to thoracoscopic technique all over the world, since minimal invasive surgery was started since 1991. We started doing thoracoscopy in 1991.

Thousands of thoracoscopic procedures were performed for the division of pleural adhesions between 1910, (the year the technique was ...