Bruno Amato1, Rita Compagna2, Gianni Antonio Della Corte2, Giovanni Martino2, Tommaso Bianco2, Guido Coretti2, Roberto Rossi2, Antonio Braucci2, Giovanni Aprea2, Pio Zeppa3, Alessandro Puzziello4, Claudio Terranova5. 1. Department of General, Geriatric, Oncologic Surgery and Advanced Technologies University of Naples Federico II, Via S. Pansini, Napoli, 5 - 801311, Italy. bruno.amato@unina.it. 2. Department of General, Geriatric, Oncologic Surgery and Advanced Technologies University of Naples Federico II, Via S. Pansini, Napoli, 5 - 801311, Italy. 3. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. 4. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy. 5. Department of Molecular Medicine, Padova University Hospital, Italy, Via Giustiniani n.2, Padova, 35126, Italy.
This article [1] has been retracted by the authors due to significant overlap with a previous publications, including Tateno et al. [2] and Moriya et al. [3]. The authors apologise for failing to cite these articles. Claudio Terranova was not involved in the study and was introduced into the author list in error. All authors, including Claudio Terranova, have subsequently agreed that he did not qualify for authorship.
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The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S1.
Authors: Bruno Amato; Rita Compagna; Gianni Antonio Della Corte; Giovanni Martino; Tommaso Bianco; Guido Coretti; Roberto Rossi; Antonio Braucci; Giovanni Aprea; Pio Zeppa; Alessandro Puzziello; Claudio Terranova Journal: BMC Surg Date: 2012-11-15 Impact factor: 2.102