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RETRACTION article

Front. Physiol., 12 January 2018
Sec. Gastrointestinal Sciences
Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.01137

Retraction: Systemic Hepatic-Damage Index for Predicting the Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Curative Resection

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  1. Systemic Hepatic-Damage Index for Predicting the Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Curative Resection

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A retraction of the Original Research Article
Systemic Hepatic-Damage Index for Predicting the Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Curative Resection

by Gao, X.-h., Zhang, S.-s., Chen, H., Wang, Y.-H., Yuan, C.-H., and Wang, F.-B. (2017). Front. Physiol. 8:480. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00480

The journal retracts the 18 July 2017 article cited above. Following article publication, the corresponding author reported that the data upon which the study was based were not collected at the Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan, China, as stated in the article. Moreover, the data have been previously published. As this represents a serious breach of our guidelines and publication ethics, the article must be retracted.

This retraction was approved by the Field Chief Editor and the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Physiology.

Citation: Frontiers Editorial Office (2018) Retraction: Systemic Hepatic-Damage Index for Predicting the Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Curative Resection. Front. Physiol. 8:1137. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.01137

Received: 26 December 2017; Accepted: 26 December 2017;
Published: 12 January 2018.

Approved by:

George E. Billman, Ohio State University, United States

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