Comment to: “Diagnostic Benefit of the Detection of Mitotic Figures in Endometriotic Lesions”

The publication: “Diagnostic Benefit of the Detection of Mitotic Figures in Endometriotic Lesions” by M. Wetzk et al. is of great significance and importance insofar as it shows how the histological diagnosis of active, endocrinologically modulated endometriosis can be described more precisely with a simple method. The mitosis index as an unpretentious morphologic parameter of the activity and proliferation potential of endometriotic implants is of great implication for subsequent treatment and probably for the prognosis of the disease i.e. reaction to medical treatment or risk of recurrences. In the endometriosis centres of excellence certified by the Scientific Endometriosis Research Foundation (SEF) and the European Endometriosis League (EEL), where patients more and more turn to for further therapy or for a second opinion after the detection of endometriosis, we increasingly see only the terse statement of endometriosis in the patho-histological report. However, it does not cost the pathologist much more time to also describe characteristic features of endometriotic implants in the histological report.

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Eingereicht: 09. Juli 2021

Angenommen: 05. August 2021

Artikel online veröffentlicht:
10. Januar 2022

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