The operation dates back to October 1979. More than 40 years later, the Nord-Mayenne hospital center has just been condemned by the Nantes administrative court for "forgetting a foreign body during an intervention. surgical ”, reports the newspaper
Ouest-France
.
The patient, then 24, had his spleen removed after a traffic accident.
But during the operation, a compress had been forgotten in his body.
It was not until 2013, after the passage of a scanner "necessary for pain in the diaphragm" that the medical fault was highlighted.
A tissue that cannot be removed
The piece of tissue being impossible to extract today, the man had requested compensation for the pain caused by what is called a "textiloma".
The hospital has been ordered in recent days to pay around 8,000 euros in compensation to its former patient to cover the damage related to suffering and various costs.
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