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Retraction Note: Does serum B lymphocyte chemoattractant protein13 (CXCL13) level correlate with parameters of disease activity and severity in rheumatoid arthritis? Clinical and musculoskeletal ultrasonographic assessment
Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation volume 49, Article number: 10 (2022)
The Original Article was published on 19 November 2020
Retraction to: Egypt Rheumatol Rehabil 47, 42 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s43166-020-00041-2
The Editors in Chief have retracted this article because the authors did not obtain written informed consent from the patients in this study. Furthermore, after publication it was noted that figure 2 was copied from another publication [1] without permission.
Dr Eman Abdel Alim Baraka agrees to this retraction. Sami A Egila, Gamal A Hamad, Maiada A Khalil, Shereen H Ahmed and Mona M Elbehisy have not responded to any correspondence from the editor/publisher about this retraction.
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Kamel SR, Sadek HA, Mohamed FA, et al (2017) The ultrasound 7 score in the assessment of synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis: correlation with clinical disease activity indiVces. Egypt Rheumatol Rehabil 44:103–110 https://doi.org/10.4103/err.err_4_17
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Baraka, E.A., Egilla, S.A., Hamad, G.A. et al. Retraction Note: Does serum B lymphocyte chemoattractant protein13 (CXCL13) level correlate with parameters of disease activity and severity in rheumatoid arthritis? Clinical and musculoskeletal ultrasonographic assessment. Egypt Rheumatol Rehabil 49, 10 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43166-022-00112-6
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