Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3178808 | The Surgeon | 2012 | 10 Pages |
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Author.The authors have plagiarized multiple paragraphs of a previously published paper, Nandi SK et al. Indian J Med Res., 2010 Jul;132:15-30, without proper attribution. All papers published by The Surgeon require the authors to explicitly state that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter. The authors have apologised for this error, and The Surgeon would also like to apologise to its readers.