RETRACTION: The Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Surgical Site Wound Infection after Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Patients With Breast Cancer: A Meta‐Analysis

TL;DR

This paper is a retraction notice for a study that claimed to analyze the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on wound infections after breast reconstruction.

Contribution

The paper does not present new research but formally retracts a previously published meta-analysis due to a flawed peer review process.

Findings

The original study was retracted because it was accepted based on a compromised peer review.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.

The retraction was agreed upon by the journal editor and publisher.

Abstract

RETRACTION:

ZhangC.
,
LiJ.
,
WangL.
,
SunS.
, and
ChenC.
, “The Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Surgical Site Wound Infection after Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Patients With Breast Cancer: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 1 (2024): e14337, 10.1111/iwj.14337.37548134
PMC10777744

The above article, published online on 07 August 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following an investigation by the publisher, all parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.