The study entitled "Efficacy of preoperative white blood cell count and lymphocyte/monocyte ratio in predicting post-lobectomy pneumonia" (doi: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.19950)[1] is a product of misconduct due to the lack of an appropriate ethical committee approval. After a thorough review, decision of retraction was made by the Editor-in-Chief of TJTCVS.
Kindly submitted for your information.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Soner Sanioğlu, MD
Chief Editor of Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery