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        <journal-title>Journal of Fetal Surgery</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2997-2086</issn>
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        <publisher-loc>United States</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JFS-25-5857</article-id>
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        <article-title>Retraction Note: Leap into Fetal Surgery; In Utero Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy, A Contemporary Approach to Treating Myelomeningocele</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Muhammad</surname>
            <given-names>Osama Siddiqui</given-names>
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          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="">*</xref>
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            <surname>Haya</surname>
            <given-names>Shahzad</given-names>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Insa</surname>
            <given-names>Binte Anwar</given-names>
          </name>
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        <addr-line>Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan</addr-line>
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        <addr-line>*Corresponding author</addr-line>
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  Muhammad Osama Siddiqui, <addr-line>Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan</addr-line>, <email>osamasiddiqui00@hotmail.com</email></corresp>
        <fn fn-type="conflict" id="idm1842593204">
          <p>The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.</p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2024-04-12">
        <day>12</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>15</fpage>
      <lpage>15</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>11</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="online">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
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        <copyright-statement>©</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Muhammad Osama Siddiqui, et al</copyright-holder>
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          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
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      <self-uri xlink:href="http://openaccesspub.org/jfs/article/2255">This article is available from http://openaccesspub.org/jfs/article/2255</self-uri>
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        <kwd>Myelomeningocele</kwd>
        <kwd>Placental Mesen chymal Stem Cells</kwd>
        <kwd>prenatal surgery</kwd>
        <kwd>stem cell therapy</kwd>
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      <title>Reason for Retraction</title>
      <p>This is a retraction notice. VIEW THE RETRACTED ARTICLE (<ext-link xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.14302/issn.2997-2086.jfs-23-4651" ext-link-type="uri">https://doi.org/10.14302/issn.2997-2086.jfs-23-4651</ext-link>), which was published on 12 April 2024</p>
      <p><italic>This notice is issued by the Editorial Manager on behalf of the </italic>Journal of Fetal Surgery (Open Access Pub)<italic>.</italic></p>
      <p><bold>Citation of retracted article:</bold> Muhammad Osama Siddiqui; Haya Shahzad; Insa Binte Anwar (2024). <italic>Leap into Fetal Surgery; In Utero Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy, A Contemporary Approach to Treating Myelomeningocele. </italic>Journal of Fetal Surgery<italic> 1(2):1–14. DOI: </italic>10.14302/issn.2997-2086.jfs-23-4651<italic>. </italic>Published: 12 April 2024.</p>
      <p><bold>Reason for retraction:</bold> Following an editorial investigation, we confirmed <bold>redundant (duplicate) publication</bold>. A substantially similar article by the same authors was <bold>previously published</bold> on <bold>11 March 2024</bold> in <italic>Journal of Regenerative Medicine </italic>13(2)<italic>, </italic>DOI: 10.4172/2325-9620.1000297<italic>. The earlier publication constitutes the version of record. The later Journal of Fetal Surgery publication did not disclose prior publication or meet the requirements for acceptable secondary publication.</italic></p>
      <p><bold>Process:</bold> The investigation followed COPE guidance for handling redundant publication. The corresponding author(s) and the editor of the other journal were notified and given the opportunity to respond prior to this decision. The Editorial Manager determined that retraction is required to correct the scholarly record.</p>
      <p><bold>Record status:</bold> The retracted article remains available to maintain the scholarly record and is clearly marked <bold>RETRACTED</bold> on the HTML and PDF. This notice links to the article, and the article links to this notice. The article’s open-license terms remain unchanged.</p>
      <p><bold>Approvals:</bold> Approved by the Editorial Manager of <italic>Journal of Fetal Surgery. </italic></p>
      <p><bold>Date of retraction: </bold>10 April 2025. </p>
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