The wound was disinfected and dressed with a bandage, but months later and the surgeon noticed something was seriously wrong ...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the 'accidental transplantation' of the patient's ...

The procedure was being carried out on a 32-year-old man from Germany - who was suffering from a rare type of cancer and was ...

When the scientists compared the samples to an unrelated histiocytoma, they confirmed that the first two tumors were ...

A past case of a surgeon having accidentally "transplanted" a rare type of cancer from a patient into himself during a procedure has resurfaced and renewed interest, the Daily Mail reports. The ...

A German surgeon contracted cancer from a patient during surgery in a rare and unprecedented medical case, according to a ...

Tests found that the surgeon did not have any signs of immune deficiency and the tumor was successfully removed from his hand. When it was tested, it was found that the tumor was a malignant fibrous ...