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A woman who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and unnecessarily had her leg amputated won a six-figure payout from the hospital trust responsible for the clinical negligence.
The 72-year-old mother-of-two went to her GP with a long-term swelling of her left foot and was referred to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, where a team of medical experts made the decision to operate after a needle biopsy suggested she had soft tissue cancer, a sclerosing epitheliod fibrosarcoma.
But after an operation to remove her leg below the knee in order to stop the suspected cancer from spreading, she was told there had been a misdiagnosis.
It was only after further post-operative tests that it was discovered the swelling was due to a non-cancerous condition known as pigmented villo nodular synovitis.
A clinical negligence solicitor who represented the victim said the NHS foundation trust agreed to pay an undisclosed six figure out-of-court settlement but refused to admit liability and claimed the doctors had made a "well-informed" diagnosis.
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