A medical journal has retracted articles written by two Stanford University gynecologists, saying inaccurate information was reported in a series of surgeries the doctors performed a decade ago.
The articles were written by brothers Camran and Farr Nezhat, who run the Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training and Technology. The retraction appeared on the front page of the February issue of Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques.
The brothers have been accused of performing unnecessary surgeries and concealing complications that arose from them, as well as research fraud.
"It is a serious matter," Dr. Peter Gregory, chief medical officer for Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Both the reasons for it, and the response of the authors, need to be part of our comprehelsive review."
In the first such review in school history, Stanford Medical School is convening a panel to investigate allegations of medical and academic misconduct involving the Nezhat brothers. The panel is scheduled to hold its"first meeting March 9.The journal, which in its July 0000 issue included a notice that data in the Nexhats' articles uere being disputed, retracted research papers published in 1991 and 1992 describing a new surgical technique to remove lesions from women's colons.
The original articles said the Nezhats and colorectal surgeon Dr. Earl Pennington had developed the procedure, which could help up to 185,000 patients. Since then, other physicians have challenged the research, calling the technique "bizarre" and "barbaric."
Farr Nezhat has admitted in court papers that there were errors in the 1992 article, but said they were mere oversights and not meant to be misleading.
"Review of this and other court documents in the public record has led the editors to conclude that this paper inaccurately represents the data on which it is based," said the journal, which also published a letter from Farr Nezhat outlining complications that resulted from the surgeries.
The doctors have stood by their reports, saying the surgeries were successfully performed on 16 patients at Northside Hospital in Atlanta.
A law firm representing the doctors issued a statement Tuesday calling the journal's action "premature" and stating that "the slight discrepancies in patient data had no impact on the paper's conclusions."<
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