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Retraction Note: colon and rectal surgery for cancer without mechanical bowel preparation: one-center randomized prospective trial

The Original Article was published on 30 April 2010

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The authors have retracted this article [1] because it contains large portions of text that have been duplicated from another article previously published in Annals of Surgery[2]. The authors apologise to the Editors and readers as well as the authors of the original article.

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The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/1477-7819-8-35

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Scabini, S., Rimini, E., Romairone, E. et al. Retraction Note: colon and rectal surgery for cancer without mechanical bowel preparation: one-center randomized prospective trial. World J Surg Onc 10, 196 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-196

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