[RETRACTED ARTICLE] Efficacy of preoperative white blood cell count and lymphocyte/monocyte ratio in predicting post-lobectomy pneumonia.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.19950.].

Retraction notice: Adhering to the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines on retraction, this article has been retracted upon the request of the Editor-in- Chief.

The study entitled “Efficacy of preoperative white blood cell count and lymphocyte/monocyte ratio in predicting post-lobectomy pneumonia” (doi: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.19950)[1] is a product of misconduct due to the lack of an appropriate ethical committee approval. After a thorough review, decision of retraction was made by the Editor-in-Chief of TJTCVS.

Kindly submitted for your information. Yours sincerely,

Prof. Soner Sanioğlu, MD

Chief Editor of Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery