Unnecessary surgical operation confirmed by individual identification by analyses of several short tandem repeat (STR) loci.

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Unnecessary surgical operation confirmed by individual identification by analyses of several short tandem repeat (STR) loci.

Nihon hoigaku zasshi = The Japanese journal of legal medicine - 1 Aug 1998

Sasaki M, Shimizu K, Fukushima T, Shiono H

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A 60-year-old man who was diagnosed as having hepatic cell carcinoma by needle punch biopsy from the liver, underwent right hepatic lobectomy. However, no malignant components were detected in the removed tissue. It was suspected that he was the wrong patient and had undergone the operation unnec...

Topics

Biopsy, Needle
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Diagnostic Errors
Forensic Medicine
Genotype
Hepatectomy
Humans
Liver Neoplasms
Male
Middle Aged
Paraffin Embedding
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Tandem Repeat Sequences
Unnecessary Procedures

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PMID: 9893445

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PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 30 Aug 2026. Prepared record publication-9893445-2026-08-30.1. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-08-30.1.

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