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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">KJIM</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>Korean J Intern Med</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="ppub">1226-3303</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">2005-6648</issn>
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<publisher-name>The Korean Association of Internal Medicine</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3904/kjim.2016.425</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">kjim-2016-425</article-id>
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<subject>Retraction</subject></subj-group></article-categories>
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<article-title>Hepatic hydatid cyst</article-title>
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<name><surname>Jee</surname><given-names>Keum Nahn</given-names></name>
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Department of Radiology, Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan, <country>Korea</country></aff>
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<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>1</month>
<year>2017</year></pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>1</day>
<month>1</month>
<year>2017</year></pub-date>
<volume>32</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>211</fpage>
<lpage>211</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x000A9; 2017 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions>
<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="retracted-article" xlink:href="26161026" ext-link-type="pubmed" vol="30" page="554">
<article-title>Hepatic hydatid cyst</article-title>
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<p>Korean J Intern Med 2015;30:554-555</p>
<p><ext-link xlink:href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2015.30.4.554" ext-link-type="uri">http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2015.30.4.554</ext-link></p>
<p>This article has been retracted following a review by the Editorial Board. It was found to be the same case with the published article, &#x0201c;Daughter cysts in a cyst of the liver: hepatic echinococcosis,&#x0201d; by Kwon et al. &#x0005b;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b1-kjim-2016-425">1</xref>&#x0005d; (<italic>Korean J Intern Med</italic> 2016;31:197-198). Therefore, the article by Jee &#x0005b;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b2-kjim-2016-425">2</xref>&#x0005d; was decided to be retracted.</p>
<p>We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.</p>
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<title>REFERENCES</title>
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<name><surname>Kwon</surname><given-names>BW</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Park</surname><given-names>SJ</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Kong</surname><given-names>JH</given-names></name>
<name><surname>Song</surname><given-names>IH</given-names></name>
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<article-title>Daughter cysts in a cyst of the liver: hepatic echinococcosis</article-title>
<source>Korean J Intern Med</source>
<year>2016</year>
<volume>31</volume>
<fpage>197</fpage>
<lpage>198</lpage>
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<label>2</label>
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<name><surname>Jee</surname><given-names>KN</given-names></name>
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<article-title>Hepatic hydatid cyst</article-title>
<source>Korean J Intern Med</source>
<year>2015</year>
<volume>30</volume>
<fpage>554</fpage>
<lpage>555</lpage>
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