On September 30, 2011, Annals of Dermatology in Volume 23, Number Supplementary 1, published a case report by Go JW, et al. on the basal cell nevus syndrome1. We accepted the article after having been informed in writing, by the authors, that it had not been submitted for publication elsewhere. In fact, however, the same case had already been reported by Moon MS, et al., the colleagues in the same affiliation in Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in Korean2. We were alerted to this fact by the editorial board of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. As some of the pictures in the case report in the Annals of Dermatology were utilized without any permission from the original publisher, it is a duplicate publication. Thus, the editorial board of Annals of Dermatology finally decided to retract it in full.