{"paper_id":"782631d2-9235-4e17-ad0a-32c6236db1b8","body_text":"Vol.:(0123456789)\nArchives of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2025) 311:581 \nhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-025-07978-9\nEDITORIAL EXPRESSION OF CONCERN\nExpression of concern: Modified thermal balloon endometrial ablation \nin low resource settings: a cost‑effective method using Foley’s catheter\nAdel Saad Helal1 · El‑Said Abdel‑Hady1 · Abd El‑Mageed Mashaly1 · Mohamed El Shafaie1 · Lotfy Sherif1\nPublished online: 7 February 2025 \n© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2025\nExpression of concern: Arch Gynecol Obstet (2011) \n284:671–675  \nhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-010-1744-2\nThe Editor-in-Chief is issuing an editorial Expression of \nConcern for this article. A concern was raised that this study \ndid not have appropriate ethical oversight. The authors have \nstated that Mansoura University did not have an ethics com-\nmittee at the time of this study and that approval was granted \nby the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. However, \nan investigation has been unable to validate that the docu-\nmentation provided by the authors in support was gener -\nated before the start date of the study. The Editor-in-Chief \ntherefore wishes to bring this to the attention of readers. \nAdel Saad Helal and El-Said Abdel-Hady agree with this \nstatement. Abd El-Mageed Mashaly, Mohamed El Shafaie \nand Lotfy Sherif have not responded to correspondence from \nthe Publisher about this statement.\nOpen Access  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons \nAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, \nwhich permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and repro-\nduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit \nto the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative \nCommons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. \nYou do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material \nderived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party \nmaterial in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons \nlicence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If \nmaterial is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and \nyour intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds \nthe permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the \ncopyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http:// creat iveco \nmmons. org/ licen ses/ by- nc- nd/4. 0/.\nPublisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to \njurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.\nThe original article can be found online at https:// doi. org/ 10. 1007/ \ns00404- 010- 1744-2.\n * Adel Saad Helal \n adelsaadhelal@yahoo.com\n1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mansoura \nUniversity, Mansoura, Egypt","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}