Surgical resection is no longer done due to risk of late complications and metastases.
It is the major source of late treatment-related complications, although it less often results in death.
Hutch didn't even know whether the director was aware of the latest complication.
Some, but not all, will go on to develop late complications.
He was still musing over this latest complication when his phone rang.
Haemorrhage is usually immediate but it can occasionally be a late complication.
The most common late complications of spinal fusion are pseudoarthrosis and back pain.
Plaque buildup, which may redevelop as a late complication between 5 months and 13 years after surgery.
The procedure was abandoned when disastrous late complications started appearing.
Hypercalcemia usually develops as a late complication of cancer, and its appearance is very serious.