Author’s Response

Dear Colleagues,

We thank you for your general appreciation of our manuscript and kind comments. Our data highlight the superiority of the laparoscopic approach over open surgery for the treatment of endometrioid endometrial cancer in terms of overall morbidity, intraoperative complications, blood loss, post-surgical recovery, as well as the incidence and severity of postoperative complications in this population. Both approaches permitted a systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy with a sufficient amount of resected lymph nodes. The laparoscopic approach appears to be as safe as the conventional open technique, but provides a better surgical outcome and might therefore be more beneficial for the patient.

Sascha Baum¹, Ibrahim Alkatout², Louisa Proppe¹, Christos Kotanidis³, Achim Rody¹, Antonio Simone Laganà⁴, Soteris Sommer¹, George Gitas⁵

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, Campus Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

³Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Iaso Hospital, Larissa, Greece

⁴Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Filippo Del Ponte Hospital, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

⁵Department of Gynecology, University Hospital Charite, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany