:: Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology

Kim, Seo, Hong, Lee, Chung, Kim, and Dhong: In Reply: Bringing Retracted Papers Into Focus

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Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology 2015; 8(1): 82.

Published online: February 03, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3342/ceo.2015.8.1.82

In Reply: Bringing Retracted Papers Into Focus

Joon Ho Kim¹, Min Young Seo², Sang Duk Hong², Jungbok Lee², Seung-Kyu Chung², Hyo Yeol Kim², Hun-Jong Dhong²

¹Department of Rhinology, Hana ENT Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

²Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Hun-Jong Dhong. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea.
Tel: +82-2-3410-3579, Fax: +82-2-3410-3879, hjdhong@skku.edu

Received January 25, 2015 Revised January 26, 2015 Accepted January 26, 2015

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See the letter "Bringing Retracted Papers Into Focus" on page 81.

Thank you for your letter pointing out our mistake. When we were writing the manuscript, we missed the information of retraction. Other references [1,2,3,4,5,6] cited in our study can sufficiently support the results showing to the efficacy of preemptive analgesia with pregabalin in diverse surgery. Therefore, there is little or no effect drawing the conclusion of our study although a study by Reuben et al. was retracted [7].

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