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		<dochead>Retraction</dochead>
		<bibl>
			<title>
				<p>Thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of ligamentum flavum of which fluorosis as an etiology factor</p>
			</title>
			<aug>
				<au id="A1" ca="yes">
					<snm>Wang</snm>
					<fnm>Wenbao</fnm>
					<email>wangwwb@yahoo.com.cn</email>
				</au>
				<au id="A2">
					<snm>Kong</snm>
					<fnm>Linghua</fnm>
					<email>kongklh@yahoo.com.cn</email>
				</au>
				<au id="A3">
					<snm>Zhao</snm>
					<fnm>Heyuan</fnm>
					<email>zhaoheyuan99@yahoo.com</email>
				</au>
				<au id="A4">
					<snm>Dong</snm>
					<fnm>Ronghua</fnm>
					<email>dongdrh@yahoo.com</email>
				</au>
				<au id="A5">
					<snm>Zhou</snm>
					<fnm>Jing</fnm>
					<email>drwangwb@yahoo.com</email>
				</au>
				<au id="A6">
					<snm>Lu</snm>
					<fnm>Yun</fnm>
					<email>drwangwb@yahoo.com</email>
				</au>
			</aug>
			<source>Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research</source>
			<issn>1749-799X</issn>
			<pubdate>2007</pubdate>
			<volume>2</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<fpage>6</fpage>
			<url>http://www.josr-online.com/content/2/1/6</url>
			<xrefbib>
				<pubidlist><pubid idtype="pmpid">17407607</pubid><pubid idtype="doi">10.1186/1749-799X-2-6</pubid>
				</pubidlist></xrefbib>
		</bibl>
		<history>
			<rec>
				<date>
					<day>13</day>
					<month>2</month>
					<year>2007</year>
				</date>
			</rec>
			<acc>
				<date>
					<day>04</day>
					<month>4</month>
					<year>2007</year>
				</date>
			</acc>
			<pub>
				<date>
					<day>04</day>
					<month>4</month>
					<year>2007</year>
				</date>
			</pub>
		</history>
		<cpyrt>
			<year>2007</year>
			<collab>Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</collab>
			<note>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<url>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</url>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</note>
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				<p/>
			</st>
			<p>The corresponding author, Dr Wenbao Wang, submitted this article <abbrgrp><abbr bid="B1">1</abbr></abbrgrp> to <it>Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research </it>shortly after submitting the article to <it>European Spine Journal</it>. <it>European Spine Journal </it>accepted the article <abbrgrp><abbr bid="B2">2</abbr></abbrgrp> in September 2006, and the article was then also accepted for publication in <it>Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research </it>in November 2006. Since it has been brought to the attention of all authors that duplicate submission and publication have taken place the decision has been made to retract the article published in <it>Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research</it>. Dr Wenbao Wang accepts full responsibility for this unfortunate situation and is deeply sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused to the editorial staff of <it>Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research </it>and its readers.</p>
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		<refgrp>
			<bibl id="B1">
				<title>
					<p>Thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of ligamentum flavum of which fluorosis as an etiology factor</p>
				</title>
				<aug>
					<au>
						<snm>Wang</snm>
						<fnm>W</fnm>
					</au>
					<au>
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						<fnm>L</fnm>
					</au>
					<au>
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					</au>
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				<source>Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research</source>
				<pubdate>2006</pubdate>
				<volume>1</volume>
				<fpage>10</fpage>
				<xrefbib>
					<pubid idtype="doi">10.1186/1749-799X-1-10</pubid>
				</xrefbib>
			</bibl>
			<bibl id="B2">
				<title>
					<p>Thoracic ossification of ligamentum flavum caused by skeletal Fluorosis</p>
				</title>
				<aug>
					<au>
						<snm>Wang</snm>
						<fnm>W</fnm>
					</au>
					<au>
						<snm>Kong</snm>
						<fnm>L</fnm>
					</au>
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					</au>
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					</au>
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					</au>
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					</au>
					<au>
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						<fnm>Z</fnm>
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						<fnm>J</fnm>
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				</aug>
				<source>Eur Spine J</source>
				<pubdate>2006</pubdate>
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		</refgrp>
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