Retraction Retraction dated 2023-02-02

Article History

Received: 6 February 2017

Accepted: 23 August 2017

First Online: 4 September 2017

Change Date: 2 February 2023

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-023-06920-1

Compliance with ethical standards

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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in 2008 ( ). Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study. This article does not contain any studies with animal subjects.

: This study was funded by the grant-in-aid of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India (Grant Number: 5/7/585/11-RHN, dated 27.03.2012).

: Ashok Kumar, Sheetal Sharma, Premashish Kar, Sarita Agarwal, Siddhartha Ramji, Syed Akhtar Husain, Sudha Prasad, and Shashi Sharma declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.