''The Annals of Thoracic Surgery'' is a

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that was established in 1965. It covers the fields of thoracic diseases and

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. It is the official journal of the

Society of Thoracic Surgeons The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a Chicago, Illinois (US)-based medical specialty professional society in the field of cardiothoracic surgery Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the ...

and the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association.

Article retraction practice

In 2004, ''The Annals of Thoracic Surgery'' published a study comparing two heart drugs. In January 2011, the journal retracted the study. The journal's

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, L. Henry Edmunds, was contacted by

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to get details about the cause of the

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. Edmunds replied that journalists and bloggers need not discuss article retraction and that it was sufficient for the public to know that the article had been retracted. Edmunds went on to say that the reasons why a journal might retract an article are personal in the same way that the reasons for a marital

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are.

Current editorial board

Editor

* G. Alexander Patterson, MD, St. Louis, Missouri

Past editors

* L. Henry Edmunds Jr, MD, 2000-2015 * Thomas B. Ferguson MD, 1984-2000 * Herbert Sloan MD, 1969-1984 * John D. Steele MD, 1964-1969

References

External links

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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