Expression of concern: Modified thermal balloon endometrial ablation in low resource settings: a cost-effective method using Foley’s catheter

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2025) 311:581 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-025-07978-9 EDITORIAL EXPRESSION OF CONCERN Expression of concern: Modified thermal balloon endometrial ablation in low resource settings: a cost‑effective method using Foley’s catheter Adel Saad Helal1 · El‑Said Abdel‑Hady1 · Abd El‑Mageed Mashaly1 · Mohamed El Shafaie1 · Lotfy Sherif1 Published online: 7 February 2025 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2025 Expression of concern: Arch Gynecol Obstet (2011) 284:671–675 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-010-1744-2 The Editor-in-Chief is issuing an editorial Expression of Concern for this article. A concern was raised that this study did not have appropriate ethical oversight. The authors have stated that Mansoura University did not have an ethics committee at the time of this study and that approval was granted by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. However, an investigation has been unable to validate that the documentation provided by the authors in support was generated before the start date of the study. The Editor-in-Chief therefore wishes to bring this to the attention of readers. Adel Saad Helal and El-Said Abdel-Hady agree with this statement. Abd El-Mageed Mashaly, Mohamed El Shafaie and Lotfy Sherif have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this statement. the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativeco mmons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/ s00404-010-1744-2. * Adel Saad Helal 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt Vol.:(0123456789)  (...truncated)