RETRACTED: Randomized controlled trial comparing treatment outcome of two compression bandaging systems and standard care without compression in patients with venous leg ulcers

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article due to redundant publication, self-plagiarism and the authors' failure to comply with the Journal's author responsibility policies. The Editor-in-Chief compared “Randomized controlled trial comparing treatment outcome of two compression bandaging systems and standard care without compression in patients with venous leg ulcers” with an article published with the same title in J. Eur. Acad. Dermatol. Venereol., 26 (2012) 102–110. The Editor-in-Chief found that data, tables, images, and whole paragraphs of text in the Journal of Vascular Surgery® article were previously published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology article.To submit a manuscript to the Journal of Vascular Surgery®, the corresponding author must complete an “Author Role, Originality, and Competition of Interest Form.” The corresponding author must certify that the work is original, has been written by the stated authors, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration for publication by another journal. If parts of the work or patients included in this manuscript have been previously published, the authors are required to disclose this information to the Editors. The corresponding author, Anneke Andriessen, failed to disclose that the work had been submitted to another journal for review, or that it had been published, on any of the forms collected by the journal or its publisher. The previously published work was not cited as a reference in the Journal of Vascular Surgery® article. The authors failed to follow the Journal's policies, and therefore the editors were unaware of the previous publication.The Journal of Vascular Surgery® is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Duplicate publication, self-plagiarism, and lack of compliance with submission policies are not tolerated by the Journal of Vascular Surgery®. We apologize to the readers of the Journal of Vascular Surgery® for this redundant publication.