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United Kingdom June 23 2016
A man who suffered horrendous abdominal and pelvic complications following failures in surgery to treat bowel cancer has received compensation. Mr Shortall, was represented by specialist medical negligence lawyer, Dr James Piers. Mr Shortall was diagnosed with bowel cancer in the summer of 2008. He underwent laparoscopic surgery (keyhole surgery) to remove the cancerous section of bowel and to re-join the bowel ends. The process of re-joining the bowel ends was not performed correctly (which can happen) and the join leaked.
Mr Shortall became profoundly unwell because of this leak, and eight days later had to undergo further extensive surgery to wash out his abdomen and perform a colostomy.
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