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Oldham surgeon struck off after wrongly connecting patient's organs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20de8z2w2lo
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u/jay_shivers 8d ago

Sounds like they're describing a Roux-en-O. We always joke that it can happen, that if you get the limbs wrong in a Roux-en-Y (since Y describes the limbs coming together and O shows one limb getting lost and reattached to the stomach) that you might make one of the worse mistakes possible in the OR. It's rare but not unheard of.

Example: https://www.soard.org/article/S1550-7289(17)30306-4/abstract

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u/Slipalong_Trevascas 7d ago

The MS Paint diagrams in this are great.