Retraction notice to ‘Surgical approaches for Total Knee Arthroplasty’ J Clin Orthop Trauma volume 7 (71-79)

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of Editor-in-Chief.The authors have plagiarized part of a book, Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee", Fifth Edition, specifically Chapter 104, "Surgical Approaches in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Standard and MIS techniques" (Patil, Nett, Tria & Scuderi). ISBN: 978-1-4377-1503-3. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.
Source: Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma - Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research
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