Response: Lack of preoperative predictors of surgical complications in patients undergoing endometriosis surgery may be due to lack of adequate preoperative imaging

Abstract

Thank you for your interest in our study and commentary. We applaud your work to improve the adoption of ultrasound for identifying endometriosis preoperatively. We agree that significant improvements have been made in the detection of endometriosis by ultrasound. At our institution Dr. Beryl Benacerraf and colleagues are routinely employing ultrasound to assess for deep infiltrating endometriosis. Unfortunately, this assessment is not employed by all local radiologists and was not available to many women in our study. We have taken the opportunity to clarify the preoperative imaging reviewed in our study.