Rare Cancer Surgeon Infected Patient's Cancer Cells With Wounds...Identical tumor identification
Jan 03, 2025
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According to a case and research paper published in the journal The New England Journal of Medicine, a German hospital surgeon, A, 53, sustained a hand injury during an operation to remove a tumor from the abdomen of a 32-year-old man with malignant fibroblastoma, a rare cancer.
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a rare type of cancer that occurs in soft tissue, and it is known that about 1,400 diagnoses are made annually.
Doctor A injured the palm of his left hand in the process of inserting a drainage tube (a tube to remove remaining blood accumulated in the stomach) into the patient while performing surgery to remove cancer from the patient's abdomen. The wound area was immediately disinfected and bandaged.
The patient successfully completed the operation, but died several months later due to complications.
However, doctor A, who performed the surgery five months later, found a small abscess about 3cm long growing on the wounded palm and was examined.
As a result of the examination, the abscess was judged to be a malignant tumor. The tumor was removed safely and the mass was examined under a microscope and found to be malignant fibroblastoma. As a result of contrast analysis with the sample of the patient he operated on, it was found to be the same cell tissue.
Researchers at the University of Tübingen reported that "both were analyzed with the same type of cells" and that "the patient's cancer cells appear to have been transferred to a wound on the surgeon's hand."
"In general, when allogeneic tissue is transplanted from one person to another, an immune response is triggered, resulting in tissue rejection," he said. "This case is unusual and rare."
The surgeon said it had been two years since the tumor was removed, but there was no indication that the cancer had spread or recurrence.
On the other hand, studies have shown that cancer is rarely transmitted when donating an organ.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.