Abstracts for Professor Arthur Li Best Paper Presentation Session of ELSA (Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia) 2005 Congress in conjunction with Hong Kong Society of Minimal Access Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 18 August 2005.

The article presents abstracts of medical research. They include "Is laparoscopic appendicectomy the gold standard in the smaller hospitals in Ireland?," Endo-laparoscopic approach vs conventional open surgery in the management of obstructing left-sided colonic carcinoma: a randomized trial," and "Randomized comparison of early versus late dissection of Calot's triangle in laparoscopic cholecystectomy."