LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Ovarian suspension for longer than 36 h is necessary for temporary ovarian suspension to fulfil its remit Sir, We readwith great interest the recent study published inHumanRepro-duction which assessed the effectiveness of temporary ovarian suspen-sion after endometriosis surgery (Hoo et al., 2014). The study failed to find a statistically significant reduction in adhesion formation associated with ovarian suspension; this finding is unsurprising and could have easily been predicted from the outset. The aim of temporary ovarian suspension is to suspend the ovaries whilst the regions of excised peritoneum heal in order to prevent contact between the ovaries and the regions of excised peritoneum. Fol-lowing healing of the peritoneum in these regions, the sutures suspending