How could they forget to remove it from him :SOriginally Posted by TOKYO AFP
Doctors who carried out surgery on a Japanese man to remove a "tumour" had good news and bad news for him. He did not have cancer -- but the "growth" that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel.
The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons at the Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo left it in him after an operation to treat an ulcer, a spokesman for the hospital said.
The man, now 49, went in to another hospital in late May after suffering abdominal pain.
When examinations found what was believed to be an eight-centimetre (3.2-inch) tumour, he underwent the operation to remove it. It was only then that surgeons realised it was a towel.
"The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original colour," the Asahi General Hospital spokesman said, adding it had been crumpled to the size of a softball.
Asahi hospital officials visited the man and apologised, he said.
The former patient has no plans to sue the hospital, which is in talks with him over compensation or other measures, the official said.
Japanese media reports said the man, who was not identified, still had his spleen removed.
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Thread: 'Tumour' was a towel!
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04-06-2008, 10:47 AM #1
'Tumour' was a towel!
How could they forget to remove it from him :S Originally Posted by TOKYO AFP
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These things happen! Simple mistake to make really.
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Simple mistake but if it was in America, I bet there would have been court cases... I think the man made the right decision but if it was in most western countries then the hospital would have to pay millions in compensation...
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Carelessness! I bet he was releived when he found out it wasn't a tumour though.
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greedy americans. Originally Posted by VBT-700
Yes i can say that, i live in america.
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Well Dr Hibbert left his car keys in Mrs Glick
erm yeah anyway I guess it's just a careless mistake but at least it wasn't a tumourI’ll be a story in your head, but that’s okay, because we’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it. I always meant to take it back. Oh, that box, Amy, you’ll dream about that box. It’ll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand-new and ancient and the bluest blue ever. And the times we had, eh? Would had…Never had. In your dreams, they’ll still be there. The Doctor and Amy Pond and the days that never came.
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ooo god if that happened to me, id be gettin loadsss of compensations
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ewww.
whatta shame lol. he'd be like all worried that he might die:rolleyes:
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04-06-2008, 07:45 PM #9
If it wen't really old, it might of infected his body. Silly mistake leaving the towel it lol, but he's fortunate not to actually have a tumour
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The size of a softball!!!! How do you leave something that big in someone!
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