A Broken Hill man was wrongly diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent major surgery after a tiny fragment of someone else's cancerous tissue contaminated his own sample, an inquest has been told.
Dennis Charles Jackson died in January 2019, having spent more than 60 days in intensive care in the months after undergoing an upper lobe lobectomy on his left lung at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
About a month after the surgery he returned to hospital where a diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia was made.
