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Case ref:201508842
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Date:February 2017
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Body:Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board - Acute Services Division
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Sector:Health
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Outcome:Not upheld, no recommendations
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Subject:clinical treatment / diagnosis
Summary
Ms C attended a dermatology clinic and a podiatry clinic before she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma (an uncommon cancer that develops in the network of vessels and glands spread throughout the body). Ms C considered that she had displayed symptoms that should have brought about an earlier diagnosis and complained that the board had delayed in making a diagnosis.
We took independent medical advice. We found that Ms C's medical records did not suggest that dermatologists had missed symptoms of lymphoma. We also found that a podiatrist would not be expected to recognise these symptoms. In view of this, we did not uphold Ms C's complaint.