The journal retracts the Case Report titled “Lacrimal Gland Prolapse: Case Report” [1], cited above.
Following publication, an internal audit conducted by the Editorial Office identified concerns regarding this publication’s [1] compliance with the journal’s policies on research involving human participants.
In accordance with the journal’s standard procedures, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted an investigation, which confirmed that no formal documented informed consent or consent to publish patient information was obtained or available for this study. As this matter constitutes a breach of the journal’s mandatory requirements for research involving human subjects, the Editorial Board has decided to retract and remove this publication [1] in accordance with MDPI’s retraction policy. As such, the title, author information and this retraction note will remain permanently available, and the article itself was removed. This information has also been transmitted to relevant indexing organizations.
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Surgical Techniques Development.
The authors did not provide a comment on this decision.
Reference
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