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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 unnecessarily. Individual identification was performed using paraffin blocks of his liver tissue taken by needle punch...
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