Surgeons in a Sochi hospital left a scalpel in a patient's body during surgery to remove a tumor.
According to Izvestia, the surgeons "remembered" about their disappearance only a few months later. According to information gathered, experts from the department of purulent surgery at a hospital in Sochi performed surgical intervention in the winter in connection with the removal of a large malignant tumor in the woman's intestine. However, during the operation, a scalpel was left on a major artery.
Oncologists in Yekaterinburg were "horrified" by what they saw in the X-rays when they examined the patient, who had come to receive chemotherapy.
The patient was in the fourth stage of cancer and was ready to sue the negligent
A scalpel was removed from the woman's body, but the patient still had complaints about the diagnosis of the neoplasm, which the Sochi specialists had missed.