AUGUST 2006



EDITOR's MESSAGE

Dear colleagues,

I’m honoured to take over the e-Journal for another 3-year term. We see in the e-Journal a valuable tool to help achieving our society’s objectives of disseminating information on endometriosis, promoting exchange of ideas, encouraging collaborations and creating connections between scientists, clinicians and all individuals who are dedicated to expand knowledge and to improve endometriosis diagnosis and treatment for the patients’ well-being.


Professor Ali Akoum
WES e-Journal editor

You are invited to use the e-Journal as a vehicle of your thoughts, opinions, and questions and to stay tuned, as highlighted by our president Rodolphe Maheux. This is an opportunity to get your message to reach all WES members!

During the last year we brought several changes to the e-Journal with the object of providing you with high quality information about endometriosis. In each issue, we now regularly have at least two scientific papers: a special guest editorial and a review article. In this issue, Dr Thomas D’Hooghe et al provide us with an interesting opinion/review article highlighting endometrial-peritoneal interactions in endometriosis. There is still limited knowledge regarding early endometrial-peritoneal crosstalk, and it is quite possible that not only endometrium but also peritoneum is an active player. This is no doubt an interesting avenue of research.

In the second article, Dr Eduardo Schor provides us with an interesting literature review of the role of environmental factors, especially dioxin, a potent endocrine disrupter, in endometriosis pathogenesis. I thank the authors for their appreciated contribution and we are looking forward to receiving your feedback to these articles, or to any other issue that may stimulate debate and trigger constructive exchange of views and ideas.

Contact us and get aboard!

Cordially,

Professor Ali Akoum

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Professor Ali Akoum
Editor WES e-journal
Faculty of Medicine
Laval University Research Centre
St-Francis of Assisi Hospital
DO-708B, 10 Rue de L'Espinay
Québec, GIL 3L5, Canada

ali.akoum@crsfa.ulaval.ca

 

 
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