Posted on 01/02/2025 6:14:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
In an unusual case, a surgeon developed a cancerous lump on his hand that stemmed from an injury he sustained while performing surgery.
The patient: A 53-year-old man in Germany
The symptoms: A surgeon developed swelling in his left hand near the base of his middle finger. This was the site of an injury he sustained five months earlier while removing a patient's malignant abdominal tumor. The lump in the surgeon's hand measured 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) in diameter.
What happened next: The surgeon had the lump removed, and an analysis revealed that it was a cancerous fibrous histiocytoma, a type of tumor containing histiocytes — immune cells that migrate into tissues where they don't belong and then form tumorous growths. It was the same type of tumor that the surgeon had been removing at the time of his hand injury. According to a report of the case published in 1996, a pathologist who examined both people's tumors wondered if the pair were as identical as they appeared.
The diagnosis: It turned out that the surgeon had accidentally transplanted some of the patient's tumor into his hand. Researchers collected samples of both tumors, isolated their DNA and conducted a genetic analysis. They found that the tumors not only had similar cellular compositions but were also genetically identical. When the scientists compared the samples to an unrelated histiocytoma, they confirmed that the first two tumors were indistinguishable from each other and "clearly distinct" from the third.
During that prior operation on the abdominal tumor, the surgeon had nicked his palm. The wound was immediately cleaned and bandaged, but the appearance of an identical tumor in his hand months later suggested that the surgeon had accidentally transplanted cells from the patient's malignant growth into his body.
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Maybe so, but this “doctor” would’ve been exposed for sure, considering how lousy his technique is/was. Maybe he has tremors? He shouldn’t been doing tumor surgery.
Time to retire, doc!
Decades ago, ordinary people acted as if cancer was contagious. Maybe they knew more than the “experts” of today.
Sounds like a shit surgeon
Nah, he got cancer, not e. coli…
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