Girl, 5, died after trainee surgeon tried new device - The Times 22nd November 2007

Thursday, November 22, 2007

A five-year-old girl died during an operation when a trainee surgeon used an unfamiliar piece of equipment without her parents’ knowledge, an inquest heard yesterday. Bethany Bowen died after the morcellator, a coring device with a blade, cut through a major blood vessel during the operation to remove her spleen.

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Girl died during spleen operation - BBC Health News 21st November 2007

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