*Corresponding author: Erbay Demir, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Independent Investigator, Istanbul, Türkiye. Email address: [email protected]
Received 2 February 2026; Accepted 5 February 2026; Available online 1 March 2026
Copyright: Demir D, et al.
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In the abovementioned article, the authors wish to correct several points related to reporting consistency, statistical terminology, and citation accuracy. These corrections do not affect the results or the conclusions of the study.
In the abstract, the study was incorrectly described as including five experimental groups. The correct number of groups is four (Sham, negative control, positive control, and curcumin), and this has been corrected in the abstract.
In the Results section, errors were identified in the textual assignment of p-values to specific histopathological parameters because of a reporting inconsistency. The Results text has been revised to correctly match each p-value with its corresponding outcome measure. The statistical analyses and underlying data remain unchanged, and these corrections do not affect the results or the conclusions of the study.
In the Discussion section, a nonsignificant finding regarding vascular congestion was erroneously described as being determined by “t-test analysis.” This reference has been removed, and the sentence has been revised to reflect the nonsignificant result without specifying an inappropriate statistical test. The underlying analyses remain unchanged.
A statement referring to a randomized, double-blind study involving 241 patients was incorrectly linked to reference 26 because of a reference numbering error. The citation has been corrected to reference 11, corresponding to the clinical trial reported by Wu and Xiao, and the surrounding references in the paragraph have been revised accordingly.
In addition, the Discussion has been revised to explicitly acknowledge that the absence of a curcumin-only healthy control group represents a study limitation, as it restricts the ability to distinguish potential local irritant effects of the formulation from changes related to the allergic rhinitis model itself.
The authors apologize for these errors and any confusion they may have caused.
The authors declare that no AI-assisted tools were used in the preparation of this manuscript. All references have been manually verified for accuracy and relevance.