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for truth The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go. Alice:... So long as I get somewhere. The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough. (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland) Sir, Hopton andRedwine (2014) dispute the existenceof occultmicroscopic endometriosis (OME), and claim that even the smallest endometriotic implants can be identified intraoperatively, provided that the surgeon keeps the tip of the endoscope very close to the peritoneum. Reviewing the literature, onemay notice that Redwine provides as evidence studies where no OME has ever been found (Redwine, 1988; Redwine and Yocom, 1990). Other experienced surgeons (Nisolle et al., 1990; Nezhat et al., 1991; Khan et al., 2014) agree that endometriosis foci could exist beneath visually normal peritoneum, since they identified