Correction to: Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis https://doi.org/10.1007/s11239-019-01865-2

The article “Use of oral anticoagulant drugs is associated with carotid intraplaque hemorrhage in atherosclerosis patients: a meta‑analysis”, written by Xin Cao, Jun Zhang and Daoying Geng, was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on April 2019 with open access.

With the author(s)’ decision to step back from Open Choice, the copyright of the article changed on May 2019 to © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of copyright.