Correspondence

Correction

Duplicate Publication and Correction

N Engl J Med 1997; 337:1175October 16, 1997

Article

To the Editor:

The patient I described in an Image in Clinical Medicine (July 10 issue)1 was described by others at this institution in the July issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2 The duplication was inadvertent on my part and theirs. The duplication occurred as follows: In September 1996, I submitted my article for publication without knowledge of anyone else's efforts to publish. Four physicians who had participated in different aspects of the patient's care prepared a different article about the same patient, which they submitted for publication on October 25, 1996. My article was accepted on November 7, 1996, and theirs on February 12, 1997. The redundancy came to my attention only after the publication of their article.

I also wish to correct several errors in my report in the Journal. The patient was 26 years old, not 30; she had been submerged in a riverbed, not a lake; and she was discharged after three weeks, not after a few days. I regret the duplication and the errors.

Nicola Petitti, M.D., Ph.D.
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157

2 References

1. 1

   Petitti N. Sand as a foreign body. N Engl J Med 1997;337:96-96
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   Dunagan DP, Cox JE, Chang MC, Haponik EF. Sand aspiration with near-drowning: radiographic and bronchoscopic findings. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997;156:292-295
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