Retraction Note: Surg Endosc (2010) 24:692–696 DOI 10.1007/s00464-009-0657-2

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted the article “Reduction of postoperative nausea, vomiting, and analgesic requirement with dexamethasone for patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy” by Y. Fujii and M. Itakura, which was published in Vol. 24, No. 3, 2010, pages 692–696, because the study with which the article was based was conducted without ethics committee approval.