Authors couldn’t find a patient to give consent for case report. Then the patient found the report.
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Authors couldn’t find a patient to give consent for case report. Then the patient found the report.
What is this about?
This short text informs about a case of a 35-year-old woman with a mysterious mass that took 11 years to be diagnosed. Since the authors could not reach the patient to obtain her consent for publication, they removed any identifiable information and published the paper anyway. The patient eventually read the paper, recognized herself and asked for retraction.
