Notice of Duplicate Publication

It has come to the attention of the Editor that an article published in this journal; Ozkurt H, Bahadir E, Ucgul A, Altuna C, Basak M, Cevizci NM, Dokucu AI. Comparison of multidetector computed tomography-virtual bronchoscopy and conventional bronchoscopy in children with suspected foreign body aspiration. Emerg Radiol. 2008 Nov 19. [Epub ahead of print], represents a duplicate publication. After careful peer review of this article it has been determined that there is substantial overlap of data, subject matter and illustrations with an article published earlier; Cevizci N, Dokucu AI, Baskin D, Karadağ CA, Sever N, Yalçin M, Bahadir E, Başak M. Virtual bronchoscopy as a dynamic modality in the diagnosis and treatment of suspected foreign body aspiration. Eur J Pediatr Surg. 2008 Dec;18(6):398-401. Epub 2008 Nov 20. The editor and the publisher of Emergency Radiology condemn the practice of duplicate publishing. As stated in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Updated October 2008, “Readers of primary source periodicals, whether print or electronic, deserve to be able to trust that what they are reading is original unless there is a clear statement that the author and editor are intentionally republishing an article. The bases of this position are international copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost-effective use of resources. Duplicate publication of original research is particularly problematic, since it can result in inadvertent double counting or inappropriate weighting of the results of a single study, which distorts the available evidence.”