A mastectomy performed on an elderly breast cancer patient by rogue surgeon Ian Paterson was “inappropriate” and may have shortened her life, an inquest has been told.
The fourth of 62 inquests being held into the deaths of patients of Paterson, who is serving a 20-year sentence for wounding, heard 82-year-old Gladys Currall died at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital on March 24 1998, days after undergoing a mastectomy.
