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Retraction Note: Comparison of minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy and left transthoracic esophagectomy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients: a propensity score-matched analysis

BMC Cancer volume 22, Article number: 409 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 27 May 2019

Retraction Note: BMC Cancer 19, 500 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5656-7

The Editor has retracted this article because an investigation by Zheijang University Academic Committee concluded that some of the surgical cases reported were the result of the sharing of clinical data and the ethics approval provided for this study does not cover all the cases included.

All of the authors disagree with this retraction.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, 2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 JieFang Rd, Hangzhou, 310009, China

    Qi Wang, Zixiang Wu, Tianwei Zhan, Shuai Fang, Sai Zhang, Gang Shen & Ming Wu

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Wang, Q., Wu, Z., Zhan, T. et al. Retraction Note: Comparison of minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy and left transthoracic esophagectomy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients: a propensity score-matched analysis. BMC Cancer 22, 409 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09471-x

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