# RETRACTION: Clinical Significance of the Secondary Pedicle Amputation of the Repair of Distal Defects With Pedicled Axial Flap

## TL;DR

This paper was retracted due to issues with the peer review process and missing patient consent and methodology details.

## Contribution

The paper was retracted and does not contribute new scientific knowledge.

## Key findings

- The article was accepted due to a compromised peer review process.
- No patient consent statement was included for the patient in Figure 3.
- The operational methods were not adequately described in the methodology.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

ZhangX.
,
DingP.
,
WangG.
,
ChenY.
,
YangX.
,
ZhaoZ.
, and
BiH.
, “Clinical Significance of the Secondary Pedicle Amputation of the Repair of Distal Defects With Pedicled Axial Flap,” International Wound Journal
19, no. 5 (2022): 1009–1015, 10.1111/iwj.13697.34636163
PMC9284622

The above article, published online on 12 October 2021, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.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. In addition, further investigation by the publisher found that no consent statement from the patient depicted in Figure 3 had been included in the article and that the operational methods were not adequately described in the methodology. In view of the clear evidence of compromised peer review, the parties agreed that the paper must be retracted. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.