Retraction notice to "Long-term outcomes of per-oral endoscopic myotomy in patients with achalasia with a minimum follow-up of 2 years: an international multicenter study": [YMGE 85 (2017) 927-933]

Saowanee Ngamruengphong; Haruhiro Inoue; Philip Wai-Yan Chiu; Hon Chi Yip; Amol Bapaye; Michael Ujiki; Lava Patel; Pankaj N Desai; Bu Hayee; Amyn Haji; Vivien Wai-Yin Wong; Silvana Perretta; Shivangi Dorwat; Mathieu Pioche; Sabine Roman; Jérôme Rivory; François Mion; Thierry Ponchon; Aurélien Garros; Jun Nakamura; Yoshitaka Hata; Valerio Balassone; Manabu Onimaru; Gulara Hajiyeva; Amr Ismail; Yen-I Chen; Majidah Bukhari; Yamile Haito-Chavez; Vivek Kumbhari; Roberta Maselli; Alessandro Repici; Mouen A Khashab

doi:10.1016/j.gie.2018.02.005

Retraction notice to "Long-term outcomes of per-oral endoscopic myotomy in patients with achalasia with a minimum follow-up of 2 years: an international multicenter study": [YMGE 85 (2017) 927-933]

Gastrointest Endosc. 2018 Apr;87(4):1164. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2018.02.005.

Authors

Saowanee Ngamruengphong¹, Haruhiro Inoue², Philip Wai-Yan Chiu³, Hon Chi Yip³, Amol Bapaye⁴, Michael Ujiki⁵, Lava Patel⁵, Pankaj N Desai⁶, Bu Hayee⁷, Amyn Haji⁷, Vivien Wai-Yin Wong³, Silvana Perretta⁸, Shivangi Dorwat⁴, Mathieu Pioche⁹, Sabine Roman¹⁰, Jérôme Rivory⁹, François Mion¹⁰, Thierry Ponchon⁹, Aurélien Garros¹⁰, Jun Nakamura², Yoshitaka Hata², Valerio Balassone², Manabu Onimaru², Gulara Hajiyeva¹, Amr Ismail¹, Yen-I Chen¹, Majidah Bukhari¹, Yamile Haito-Chavez¹, Vivek Kumbhari¹, Roberta Maselli¹¹, Alessandro Repici¹¹, Mouen A Khashab¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto-Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁴ Shivanand Desai Center for Digestive Disorders, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Center, Pune, India.
⁵ Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Surat Institute Of Digestive Sciences, Surat, India.
⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
⁸ Department of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
⁹ Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, Digestive Disease Department, L Pavillon-Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France.
¹⁰ Université de Lyon and Hospices Civils de Lyon, Digestive Physiology, E Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France; INSERM U1032, Lyon, France.
¹¹ Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 29571778
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2018.02.005

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted due to overlapping/duplicate material. Data from some patients from this study have previously been published in other journals without cross-referencing. Twenty patients overlap with a paper by Kumbhari et al.¹ Thirty-five patients overlap with the study by Ngamruengphong et al.².

Publication types

Retraction of Publication