Cureus has retracted a pair of case studies after the authors revealed that the informed consent they’d received from the patients had been revoked.
Case Reports can make for strong research outputs, but they can bring tricky problems and costly consequences, as are highlighted by this Retraction Watch piece.
One paper, “Failure of an Ancient Breast Implant Can Lead to Significant Morbidity,” described the case of a 90-year-old woman who ruptured a 60-year-old breast implant. (The first silicone breast implants arrived in 1962, so the 60-year-old prosthesis would have been among the earliest to be inserted.)
