Doctors place radiation seeds outside Illinois man’s prostate leading to loss of colon and bladder
Levin & Perconti is currently litigating a medical malpractice case against 2 physicians and the University of Chicago hospital for negligently performing brachytherapy on a patient with prostate cancer. The doctors placed radioactive seeds in or near the rectal wall causing a burn injury, radiation proctitis, and the loss of the patient’s colon and bladder.
The seeds should have been implanted within the prostate and many seeds were not, therefore causing the rectal burn injury.
The case is expected to go to trial later this year.
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