Clinical negligence in head and neck surgery

摘要

There are three main areas in which substandard carenmay lead to a claim. Initially there may be a failure tondiagnose a case of malignancy due to a failure to recognizenthe significance of certain symptoms or signs,ninappropriate referral or failure to investigate.nSecondly, damage can arise through the biopsy procedurenor a failure to get a representative sample of thenlesion being biopsied. Finally the definitive surgicalntreatment may lead to damage through a substandardntechnique