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Retraction Note: Stress urinary incontinence: long-term results of laparoscopic Burch colposuspension

The Original Article was published on 08 October 2013

Retraction Notice

This article [1] has been retracted by the authors because it contains large portions of text that were duplicated from a number of pervious publications including Rofeim et al. [2], Carey et al. [3] and Hong et al. [4]. The authors apologise for failing to cite these articles.

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The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S38.

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Prezioso, D., Iacono, F., Di Lauro, G. et al. Retraction Note: Stress urinary incontinence: long-term results of laparoscopic Burch colposuspension. BMC Surg 16, 26 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-016-0141-6

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