Retraction to: 'Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and unsuspected gallbladder cancer' [European Journal of Surgical Oncology 27 (2001) 225–228]

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Reason: The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team of the EJSO very much regret that it has become necessary to retract this article formally. The journal was recently alerted to the fact that it duplicates substantial sections from an article previously published in Seminars of Surgical Oncology (Box JC, Edge SB. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and unsuspected gallbladder cancer. Sem Surg Oncol 1999: 16; 327e31). The authors have been contacted but we have not received a satisfactory explanation for the remarkable similarities between the two papers. Their institution will be informed. Modern plagiarism detection software systems now allow very detailed comparative analysis of submitted texts