Two surgeons have been sent to
trial for removing a 53-year-old woman's stomach by mistake near
Milan in 2016, Monza prosecutors said Friday.
The stomach was removed after a "totally mistaken" diagnosis
of a malignant rumour, the prosecutors said.
The bungled operation caused the woman to suffer from a
"certainly or probably unhealable illness", in losing an
essential organ, they said.
The surgeons work at the Irccs Multimedica clinic in Sesto
San Giovanni.
The woman is standing as civil plaintiff.
She said: "reduced to a skeleton, on April 19 (2016) I was
discharged and sent home. I suffered a brutal, indecent and
unjustifiable calvary and a mutilation on the scientific level".
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