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|Resource Type=Cases
|Title=Authors couldn’t find a patient to give consent for case report. Then the patient found the report.
|Is 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.
|Important For=Researchers; Journal editors
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|Has Link=https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/27/authors-couldnt-find-patient-give-consent-case-report-patient-found-report/
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|Has Virtue And Value=Transparency; Respect
|Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Consent; Confidentiality; Publication ethics; Research with humans; Data management
|Related To Research Area=LS - Life Sciences; LS 07.08 - Health services, health care research
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